Adolescence is the conjugate of childhood and adulthood.

— Louise J. Kaplan

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

— Louise J. Kaplan

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

— Louise J. Kaplan

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