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"Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion."
Louise J. Kaplan
"The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to."
Andrew Shue"I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors."
Danica McKellar
"I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone."
Adriana Lima
"The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not."
Louise J. Kaplan"I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things."
Miranda Otto
"Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon."
Terry Brooks
"I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try."
Ethel Waters"I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television."
Brittany Snow"Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period."
Caitlin Flanagan
"Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born."
G. Stanley Hall"Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves."
Virginia Satir
"Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did."
Clyde Tombaugh
"As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too."
Johnny Depp"But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise."
Wayne Kramer"When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body."
Heather Locklear
"I think I'm trouble-adjacent. I remember hearing once that good girls don't get caught. I think that's sort of a lot of what my teen years were like. I skirted the stuff that other kids were doing because the idea of actually getting in trouble was not appealing to me, but I still wanted to have adventures."
Anna Kendrick"I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories."
Connie Stevens
"I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years."
Sara Zarr"Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back, and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you're not sure about certain things, talk to your friends that you trust and your family."
Victoria Justice"When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'"
Thomas Friedman
"So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!"
Vanessa Hudgens"I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant."
Queen Latifah"I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an obsession as I realized that I could express myself through the medium. Much later, when I founded Fuseproject in 1999, our slogan became 'design brings stories to life.'"
Yves Behar
"People look down on teen moms and young mothers when they are the most gracious and significant women on this Earth. They sacrifice their freedom and their lives to give life."
Princess Nokia"When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts."
Linda Hunt
"I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that."
Lacey Chabert"Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice."
David Elkind"No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what."
Eddie Vedder
"Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces."
Marilyn vos Savant
"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."
Sophia Bush"Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts."
Mary Pipher
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