Quotes by Louise Kaplan

• The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.
• Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
• Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
• 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.