Anais Nin Quotes

Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.

I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.

When you're teenager, your hormones and your emotions are so tumultuous and so unpredictable. You're just trying to understand yourself.

I was approaching adolescence. For some reason, I guess my mother thought it would be less crazy out in the suburbs, which it wasn't. I just think adolescence is hard for anyone.

Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.

I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.

I went to a really diverse and wonderful school in inner-city Pittsburgh, where all the various groups and types of people got along pretty great, and a lot of interesting stuff was going on all the time - and I still hated high school. It's just a rough, rough period in one's life.

Puberty was definitely difficult for me.

On her daughter: And she's going through all these changes. You know, it's just crazy times.

When you're a teenager, a year can be crippling to maneuver through. Some things happen when you're like 13. All of a sudden you go from being this really confident, no-worry little kid to having all these weird insecurities for no reason.

Adolescence involves our nutty-desperate-ecstatic-rash psychological efforts to come to terms with new bodies and outrageous urges.

In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.

I have a 14 year old daughter now. You know, it was that time in these kids lives when these girls are becoming women and the hormones are raging. They didn't know if The Beatles were any good, they just went for it 'cause The Beatles were attractive.

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.

Most of what I've written songs about are things that come out of the confusing emotional, spiritual and psychological period of time when you're going through puberty.

I didn't feel so great when I was a teenager, but who does?

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

In my teenage years, there was a lot of angst going on.

I hit a big growth spurt between my 10th and 11th grade years.

I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.

It seems that one moment I was this little kid only caring about animals and flowers and stuff, and then the next minute I was this raging stew of hormones. I don't know if you've ever been a raging stew of anything, but I wouldn't particularly recommend it.

It's a pretty scary time. So many emotions come up and you don't really have the wisdom to make the right choices. You can really screw yourself in adolescence.