Tavi Gevinson Quotes

When you're a teenager, your essence is so specific to being a teenager, and everything becomes so extreme. Your emotions are on the surface, and you oscillate between different things at one time.

I remember watching 21 Jump Street and thinking I'm attracted to Johnny Depp - "What are these feelings?" I remember all of this, the first time you feel things. I mean, yes, boys in class, whatever, but to specifically go back to those experiences, it's kind of amazing.

I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.

YA, I feel, is so accurate to what it is like be a teenager and the realities of being a teenager and being in love.

When you're teenager, your hormones and your emotions are so tumultuous and so unpredictable. You're just trying to understand yourself.

Puberty was definitely difficult for me.

When you're younger, you do have that thing that you were talking about where the mouth goes dry. I mean you have reactions, and you do fall in love.

Going through puberty as a young girl is so confusing. This monster invades your body, changes things and makes things grow, and no one tells you what's going on.

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

Normal kids in their teens want to go and date girls and do mischievous things, your hormones are jumping around, but I stayed in my bedroom in search of something.

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.

Most of what I've written songs about are things that come out of the confusing emotional, spiritual and psychological period of time when you're going through puberty.

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.

I think teen-age love is a great thing. There's nothing quite like it and never will be for the rest of your life.

My first crush was on John Travolta in 'Grease.'

Being a teenager is hard.

I thought back to my middle-school experience of having slumber parties and watching Romeo + Juliet and staring at Leo and thinking about my first kiss and what I wanted it to be like. And when you have your first real love, it's an epiphany, you know? It's like a whole new world.

Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.

Puberty hit me pretty hard. All of a sudden, I woke up, and I had really curly hair.

When you're a kid, regardless of the age you grew up, everything is high opera. With hormones raging, you have to fight external and internal battles that you've never had to deal with before. Unlike Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, who have seen it all and been through it all, everything heightens the drama.

With Free, we were teenagers, and, ummm, there was a lot of raging hormones.

When you were a teenager, everything's kind of drawn in primary colors; everything's big, and everything's life or death.