• "Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one." - Fred G. Gosman Tweet
• "To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent." - Dave Barry Tweet
• "Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot." - Rider Strong Tweet
• "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." - e. e. cummings Tweet
• "Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice." - David Elkind Tweet
• "As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be." - Julie Burchill Tweet
• "I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16 I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining." - Maggie Stiefvater Tweet
• "Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't." - Jamie Lee Curtis Tweet
• "I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing." - Willie Aames Tweet
• "Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock." - Ben Lindsey Tweet