Meaning lies in the magic of the coincidence that you should come across work at just the right time.
Tavi GevinsonI feel lucky in that I don't really have to go to college to study something job-specific. I just want to go to learn about what is interesting to me and learn about the classes that you don't really get to take in high school because you have to take the basics.
Tavi GevinsonThe idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me.
Tavi GevinsonThen people expect women to be that easy to understand, and women are mad at themselves for not being that simple, when, in actuality, women are complicated, women are multifaceted - not because women are crazy, but because people are crazy, and women happen to be people.
Tavi GevinsonIt 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.
Tavi GevinsonI 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.
Tavi Gevinson