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

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.

In time of poverty, you alone face is your fate. If your spirit is stronger enough, you will survive.

Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him?

And tonight Mary could taste bitterness going down like a nut, settling in her stomach. It planted itself, put down roots, and began to grow, nourished on her dark blood.

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.

Ten thousand people died, an entire town destroyed.

As someone fairly committed to the death of our solar system and ultimately the entropy of the universe, I think the question of what we should worry about is irrelevant in the end.

There is no solitude in nature.

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

I'm most scared of failing, of disappointing people.

I started to write. And I wrote and wrote all through high school.