India de Beaufort Quotes

I don't think I found out what I liked to wear until I was, like, 18.

My parents are both very stylish, so they always encouraged me to explore when it came to personal style. I went through a lot of crazy phases, and I'm still finding myself.

The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

I'm still learning who I am. One minute I have black hair, the next it's red. One day I'm wearing Converse sneakers, and the next I'm in the hippie look.

Kids have to experiment a little or figure out where they belong.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

I change my style maybe every month. I'm, like, punk one month, ghetto fab the next, classy the next. I'm just young and finding out who I am.

As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

There was a time in my life when I tried a lot of different things, different looks. Between the ages of 17 and 22, there were a lot of bad looks. But I guess you learn from your mistakes. After that, I kind of found my style and what I like to wear.

I'm always thinking about identity. And the middle-school years are a time of exploring questions about who you are and who you want to be. For the first time, you see the world in a broader sense.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

I didn't figure out the makeup or cute hair or clothes until oh, maybe my junior year of high school.

I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves.

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.

In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some identity in a world of people whose identities seemed to come effortlessly.

I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.

Some people choose their style at the age of 14, but I changed mine all the time.

Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

It's interesting for me to always make myself look very different.

I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution.

Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.

Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.