Tavi Gevinson Quotes

You don’t need to be a completely complete human right now … That’s what makes you human.

I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.

You don’t have to be special, you just have to be kind.

Feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process...

Women are complicated...not because women are crazy, but because people are crazy, and women happen to be people.

What makes a strong female character is a character who has weaknesses, who has flaws, who is maybe not immediately likable, but eventually relatable.

Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.

If you are intimidated by the artists who came before you, understand you too have a place, right next to them.

Feminism to me means fighting. It's a very nuanced, complex thing, but at the very core of it I'm a feminist because I don't think being a girl limits me in any way.

One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.

The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.

I love art, but I don't think I'm especially good at it. Fashion I think I could imagine, but I'm not really sure. I think it's easiest for me to picture myself in music.

I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.

I think it was my mom's attitude about art and being part of the narcissistic digital generation or whatever that made me think anyone would care what I had to say about anything!

Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.

My only job has been to say that you have to, try different things and let yourself become a different person, have experiences.

Meaning lies in the magic of the coincidence that you should come across work at just the right time.

I think it'd be great to own a fun concept store with my friends and just sell books and records.

I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.

I feel like a young adult. In high school I never felt like my professional life and my personal life were at odds, because Rookie felt like the bridge.

I do find working with people in the entertainment industry hard. It can cause anxiety and depression.

The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me.

I don't really read that much stuff about myself anyways, because I feel as though you then develop this mind-set of just making sure other people would approve of your decisions.

There are things that feel so small but are such a big part of life.

I always joke that I'd like to be a cat 'cause then I'll have nine lives, and then I can do like everything. But that's really hard.

To me, being a woman in 2016 is allowing myself to contain multitudes. Looking at who's given the space to do so and why.

There's danger in glorifying negative emotions as fuel for art.

It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.

I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much.

It's great that with the Internet, there has come this sense of creative independence.

'Rookie' is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and believe in.

One of my intentions with 'Rookie' is for the girls reading it to know that they are already cool enough and smart enough and pretty enough.

I created 'Rookie' because I read a lot of websites that I thought were cool and interesting, but they weren't for teens, and I wanted us to have something that could be ours.