Young girls are told you have to be the delicate princess. Hermione taught them that you can be the warrior.
People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating; there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, y...
I'm very romantic and of course I want to be in love.
What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.
I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I just want to do everything.
I don't want other people to decide what I am. I want to decide that for myself.
It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact with how things are made that are put in their body and put in their mouths and I just find it alarmin...
It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.
Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And...
I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn't even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I'd found a solid group of friends,...
I've always been fascinated by Elizabeth Taylor, and I had read that her first kiss happened on a film set, which actually made me a little sad. You need to have normal experiences of your own.
I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.
The saddest thing a girl can do is dumb herself down for a guy.
I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
When I haven't been working I've tried to travel a lot.
But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.
I just feel like if I start opening the door to talking about my university experience, then people just kind of... own everything. There was a lot of stuff a couple of years ago saying that I was bul...
When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.
I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more...
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