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“Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.”

Terri Apter · Society

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Terri Apter

When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.

Relationship

Mignon McLaughlin

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Society

Barbara Jordan

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

Society

Theodor Adorno

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

Society