"Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts."

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One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity--not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification ofthe range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals.

— Terri E Apter