{"quotes":[{"text":"How embarrassing that she ever did something that silly. But, good God, she was seventeen. At that age, we're mostly high-pitched and crazy. All urgent chemicals raging around the blood course. And that's why we do dangerous and embarrassing things, as if simultaneously we're immortal and going to die tomorrow. And that's why we look back on that time so fondly from the dimmer years to come. Remembering the days when we were like Greek gods. Mighty and idiotic.","author":"Charles Frazier","tags":["hormones","remembering","reminiscence","teenagers","teens"],"id":62973,"author_id":"Charles+Frazier"},{"text":"Hormones, it seemed, we're making a much-delayed appearance in her life.Liv was horrified.","author":"Danika Stone","tags":["all-the-feels","dating","funny","hormones","humor","liv","love","teen-life"],"id":77679,"author_id":"Danika+Stone"},{"text":"Why do you think, A.J.,' they say in unison, 'that you find these boys so attractive?' I didn't say that this fiery chemical explosion leaps from somewhere inside me. Parents don't want to hear these things. I shrugged and said nothing. 'Maybe you should try sitting on the intensity,' Mom suggests, 'just until your feelings catch up with reality.'We could chain you to the water heater,' Dad offers, 'until these little moments pass.'You see what I'm up against.","author":"Joan Bauer","tags":["communication","family-relationships","hormones","humor","parental-advice","parents","teenagers"],"id":96962,"author_id":"Joan+Bauer"},{"text":"I am often described to my irritation as a 'contrarian' and even had the title inflicted on me by the publisher of one of my early books. (At least on that occasion I lived up to the title by ridiculing the word in my introduction to the book's first chapter.) It is actually a pity that our culture doesn't have a good vernacular word for an oppositionist or even for someone who tries to do his own thinking: the word 'dissident' can't be self-conferred because it is really a title of honor that has to be won or earned, while terms like 'gadfly' or 'maverick' are somehow trivial and condescending as well as over-full of self-regard. And I've lost count of the number of memoirs by old comrades or ex-comrades that have titles like 'Against the Stream,' 'Against the Current,' 'Minority of One,' 'Breaking Ranks' and so forth—all of them lending point to Harold Rosenberg's withering remark about 'the herd of independent minds.' Even when I was quite young I disliked being called a 'rebel': it seemed to make the patronizing suggestion that 'questioning authority' was part of a 'phase' through which I would naturally go. On the contrary, I was a relatively well-behaved and well-mannered boy, and chose my battles with some deliberation rather than just thinking with my hormones.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["ity","contrarianism","dissent","dissidents","free-thought","harold-rosenberg","honorifics","hormones","independence","memoirs","oppositionism","rebellion","words","youth"],"id":100443,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"When I was suddenly thrust into what everyone calls menopause (Orchids) earlier than my body planned, I decided someone needed to take charge on so many levels. It was time to not only change the vernacular, but to speak up and say 'Hey! This isn't an old lady's disease! We aren't old! We are strong and dammit, we are beautiful and sexy too!","author":"Lisa Jey Davis","tags":["aging","aging-gracefully","change-of-life","disease","grand-mother","grandma","hormonal-issues","hormones","menopause","old-lady","orchids"],"id":164068,"author_id":"Lisa+Jey+Davis"},{"text":"The sudden surge of hormones at teenage age will continue to play an important part in the life of young people.","author":"Oche Otorkpa","tags":["1-sudden","age","continue","hormones","important","life-young","part","people","play","surge","teenage"],"id":228759,"author_id":"Oche+Otorkpa"},{"text":"Oh I believe in loving cats and dogs and children and parents – sometimes – but I don’t believe in romantic love. Of course, there’s the momentary rush of hormones and chemicals that encourages us to mate, but it’s biology – it’s no more inherently mystical than the nicotine in that cigarette you’re smoking.","author":"Amy Jenkins","tags":["biology","chemical","desire","hormones","love","passion"],"id":349367,"author_id":"Amy+Jenkins"},{"text":"The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?","author":"Vernor Vinge","tags":["free-will","hormones","neuroscience","reality","self-awareness"],"id":378335,"author_id":"Vernor+Vinge"},{"text":"With two teenagers in the house, we sometimes experience a degree of domestic turbulence that sounds, to my ear, like a boiling teakettle filled with hormones shrieking on a stove.","author":"Roland Merullo","tags":["girls","hormones","life-and-living","teenagers"],"id":428358,"author_id":"Roland+Merullo"},{"text":"I believe that love and forgiveness engages an incomprehensible healing force and sometimes true healing occurs, but always an emotional and spiritual healing happens.","author":"Angeli Maun Akey","tags":["aging","health","hormones"],"id":432183,"author_id":"Angeli+Maun+Akey"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}