Jonathan Franklin Quotes

I think my family does a good job of letting me be a regular teenager, which we all need.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.

I love being a teen because you don't have all the responsibilities of an adult yet.

For my senior prom, my father finally said I could go - as long as I was home by 9 P.M.! That was around the time that most people were heading out. When I was little I was so mad at them all the time. 'Why can't I do this?' 'Why are there so many rules?' But looking back now, my parents gave me the foundation to have so many choices in life.

Being a teenager is chaotic because you're kind of coming into your own, but you're not an adult; you're fighting with your parents over responsibilities and freedom.

In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.

People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'

As a teenager, I ached to grow up even more than I dreaded to. I craved escape from my parents' impositions on what I believed.

I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance.

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

I get to be a teenager like every other teenager, but I have a passion and a great goal in life.

There's a level of protection you need to give to your kids, and then sometimes you need to just let them figure out things on their own.

Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

When my son first started to take the subway, my husband and I used to follow him to make sure he was all right, and then we had to stop following him and let him do it by himself.

I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers are so resilient and strong, it's just amazing.

I think when you're 14 years old, I think you're sort of looking for markers that prove you're an adult and you're independent of your parents.

I'm an 18-year-old boy, and I'm having fun. I'm just not having as much fun as people make out.

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

Because teenagers don't have adult responsibilities yet, you can create your own drama, and it's a universe of your own emotions.

It's depressing and scary, but he needs to know the world around him because he's fourteen now and in two years he's going to drive. He needs to know what goes on out in the world. I'm not going to always be there.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a woman, so I'm definitely going to write from that point of view.