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Tavi Gevinson Quotes

I usually end up making a huge mess every morning when I get dressed. My outfit affects my whole day. I’m always running late, and I’m always trying to make sure I feel really good in what I’m wearing, because if you’re wearing something you’re not comfortable in, it ruins your day.

– Tavi Gevinson

I think people can tell when you’re pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.

– Tavi Gevinson

When you’re a kid you’re already trying to create your own world and organize the one in front of you, but then you get all insecure around 6th grade and don’t think you have a right to share that.

– Tavi Gevinson

If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of ‘the future of journalism,’ it’ll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that’s enough for me.

– Tavi Gevinson

Sometimes ‘Rookie’ is written about like, ‘Finally! Something for alternative girls!’ and I’m like, ‘No!’ Obviously it’s not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.

– Tavi Gevinson

For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn’t a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.

– Tavi Gevinson

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

– Tavi Gevinson

I’m not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.

– Tavi Gevinson

My life motto is basically to lower your standards and expectations so you’re never disappointed and never put any trust in anything, and I try to prepare for the day that I wake up, and everyone I know is like, ‘LOL JK best long-running practical joke ever’, so I’ve never really let myself freak out or get too excited about anything.

– Tavi Gevinson

A lot of people glorify and romanticize the idea of being an early bloomer: finding success very early and being a child star. But it can also be quite dangerous.

– Tavi Gevinson

I’m really thankful for every experience I’ve had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much.

– Tavi Gevinson

Oh God, I’m awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.

– Tavi Gevinson

With the release of her fourth album, ‘Red,’ in 2012 and a handful of highly publicized romances, Taylor was criticized by the press and other entertainers for such sinful acts as dating people and writing songs about it, gaining a reputation as boy-crazy and love-ridden.

– Tavi Gevinson

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.

– Tavi Gevinson

So much about ‘Rookie’ has been very organically familial among our contributors, among our readers. Yeah, if I interview someone like Lorde, who I do know outside of work – sometimes I’m just so happy; it’s so cool that this is organically, effortlessly, the warm, supportive friend vibe that we want here.

– Tavi Gevinson

I first met Solange at a party for her gorgeous and inspiring website, Saint Heron. I’d already had so many phases of listening exclusively to 2012’s ‘True’ and admired her activism and radiant style.

– Tavi Gevinson

I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I’ve never felt like I’m a role model. I’m not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I’ll be dead so it won’t matter.

– Tavi Gevinson

I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I’ll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.

– Tavi Gevinson

I try not to do anything I don’t like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.

– Tavi Gevinson

You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.

– Tavi Gevinson

I guess what I’m trying to say is that writing is mysterious; you don’t ever truly know where it is coming from, so don’t edit yourself line by line. Don’t get in your own way. Whatever is truly there at the core, that is your voice.

– Tavi Gevinson

I get kind of sad when I look at all of my magazines and think about how at one time I was much more impressed with a certain fashion editorial, or how I feel like I can’t really relate to being that excited about fashion anymore. Maybe it’s being jaded, but I honestly like that now, when something’s really good, I feel more affected by it.

– Tavi Gevinson

I’ve witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.

– Tavi Gevinson

I created ‘Rookie’ because I read a lot of websites that I thought were cool and interesting, but they weren’t for teens, and I wanted us to have something that could be ours.

– Tavi Gevinson

When you work online, staying on the Internet more than you need to feels like being at the office after hours.

– Tavi Gevinson

If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don’t write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it’s like there’s a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven’t put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that’s always been important to me.

– Tavi Gevinson

I still care a lot about my personal style, and since moving to New York and having a little more control over my own money, I’ve been able to make my 12-year-old fashion nerd dream comes true.

– Tavi Gevinson

I think everybody should go to high school. It’s horrible, and it unites you with other people.

– Tavi Gevinson

I’d seen ‘The Sopranos,’ but I wasn’t a faithful viewer because I can’t handle it.

– Tavi Gevinson

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.

– Tavi Gevinson

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