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, The New Peoplemaking, 1988
Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough. – Earl Wilson
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life. – Yiddish Proverb
My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe. – Faye Moskowitz