Erma Bombeck Quotes About Adolescence
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When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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When children reach the age of sixteen, they discover the meaning of life: car keys.
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Adults are always telling young people, 'These are the best years of your life.' Are they? I don't know. Sometimes when adults say this to children I look into their faces. They look like someone on the top seat of the Ferris wheel who has had too much cotton candy and barbecue. They'd like to get off and be sick but everyone keeps telling them what a good time they're having.
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Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to get married.
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