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

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.

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.

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

Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.

Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.

Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds.

His hands are on my back, in my hair, on my hips. His fingers move like I'm Braille, like he's trying to read me just by touching me.

In England justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.

There's no downside to having too much experience.

Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.

The deeper I went into culture, the more confused I got. So I needed something more real. I said, "Okay, from now on, my country will be cinema."

Gun violence is not something that appears just in a bad neighborhood or in another part of the world. It appears right here, right outside your door.

I always try to go back and check my old stuff. It's like watching the tapes of the game. You want to go back and go as hard as before.