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

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.

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.

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

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

Sometimes money is the only thing that people have and they feel threatened when they think they are losing it.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.

I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.

Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.

What is terrible when you seek the truth, is that you find it. You find it, and then you are no longer free to follow the biases of your personal circle, or to accept fashionable clichés.

That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.