Quotes by Tavi Gevinson

Tavi Gevinson

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.

Art

Community

Fashion

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.

Fighting

Girl

Mean

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

Conversation

Feminism

Process

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.

Cat

Jokes

I do think reading is the best practice for writing, along with writing all the time. 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.

Reading

School

Writing

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.

Decision

People

I don’t think I was ever thinking critically about my aesthetic, I think it’s enough when you’re little just to understand that you can give yourself the permission to try and see things differently or create something original, even though you probably won’t make anything original for a really long time.

Giving

Long

Thinking

I have a lot of love for the resilience personified in so many achievements made by Americans. I feel not American when that idea of resilience is appropriated to justify discrimination, e.g., “Make America Great Again.”

Achievement

Discrimination

Resilience

I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it’s counter-productive to immediately associate anything “girly” with vanity or stupidity. I also think it takes away from girls’ agency to say that girls who are interested in that kind of thing only are because they don’t know what’s good for them.

Girl

Mean

Thinking

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

Book

Fun

Thinking

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Art

Attitude

Be Kind

Bitter

Book

Cat

Coincidence

Community

Conversation

Crazy

Creating

Creative

Cures

Decision

Different

Discrimination

Editors

Everyday

Fashion

Feminism

Fighting

Film

Followers

Fun

Games

Girl

Giving

Jobs

Jokes

Kids

Light

Long

Lying

Magic

Mean

Motivated

People

Plates

Process

Procrastination

Reading

Real

Resilience

Revenge

School

Simple

Special

Special You

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Quotes by Tavi Gevinson

Tavi Gevinson

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.

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

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 do think reading is the best practice for writing, along with writing all the time. 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.

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.

I have a lot of love for the resilience personified in so many achievements made by Americans. I feel not American when that idea of resilience is appropriated to justify discrimination, e.g., “Make America Great Again.”

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

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