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I'm good at utilising body parts as letters.
You don’t have to be special, you just have to be kind.
There's danger in glorifying negative emotions as fuel for art.
There are things that feel so small but are such a big part of life.
I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.
Feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process...
I just feel so lucky that I'm able to do things that are enriching for me.
I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'
Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
I'd seen 'The Sopranos,' but I wasn't a faithful viewer because I can't handle it.
I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.
You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
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.
Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.
I think everybody should go to high school. It's horrible, and it unites you with other people.
The connection that readers have to 'Rookie' has only meant more and more to me as I get older.
One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.
The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me.
I think it'd be great to own a fun concept store with my friends and just sell books and records.
I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.
I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
Since the age of 14, I have littered - excuse me, adorned - the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.
Meaning lies in the magic of the coincidence that you should come across work at just the right time.
I do find working with people in the entertainment industry hard. It can cause anxiety and depression.
If you are intimidated by the artists who came before you, understand you too have a place, right next to them.
When you work online, staying on the Internet more than you need to feels like being at the office after hours.
The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.
It's so hard getting rid of something that means something to you, as many of the pieces on our site do for me.
Women are complicated...not because women are crazy, but because people are crazy, and women happen to be people.
'Rookie' is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and believe in.
With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my way up in a traditional sense.
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.
Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.
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.
When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.
My only job has been to say that you have to, try different things and let yourself become a different person, have experiences.
If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.
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.
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 was always in the back of my mind while we were working on the first year of 'Rookie' that we'd do a print version at some point.
Having your stuff online - some people think of it as gimmicky, but in a way, it's one of the most pure forms of having your work judged.
I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd been writing every day for years.
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 love the Internet, but I think you have to only use it in the ways that are good for you. I think there's so much speculation that happens.
People don't know what to do when writing a story with teens that takes place now - they think you have to make a bunch of references to Facebook.
When you're playing someone else, it sounds so negative to say you want to erase yourself, but part of the joy of it is you get to not be yourself.
People ask me about the decision to transition from fashion to 'Rookie' magazine. But it wasn't a decision. I was 14, and my interests were changing.
Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa D'Amour, workshopped it.
What makes a strong female character is a character who has weaknesses, who has flaws, who is maybe not immediately likable, but eventually relatable.