Rebecca Stead Quotes

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

When we're growing up and being teenagers, oftentimes you try so hard to define yourself. You try to create an image of yourself because you don't really know who you are yet. And that can be kind of limiting because you forget that there are actually so many different sides of identity. And it's important to recognize that everyone is completely different.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

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.

Teens are passionate, questioning, curious, have a bit of the idealism I still cling to, and they're making decisions for the first time that can alter the course of their lives - and sometimes, the course of the world.

People flash back to pictures of me when I was 12 and say 'Kylie's so different,' but how can I look the same from 12 -18?

I suppose I've always lived in my own head. I didn't discover boys till sixth form. Then suddenly it was, 'Oh! Boys!'

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

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

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.

You don't know who you are when you're 14.

I think the most important part of the teenage years is wondering.

I know what my identity is.

When you're 12, you have no gauge for what's hip or not hip - or even who you are.

I might not ever fully know who I am, but I also believe that I could be whoever I want, whenever I want.

High school is really when I came into my own.

I think a lot of young girls go through that period in their life of finding who they are, and at that point, looking good matters the most.

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.

I have no issues with my identity.

If you have created an image of yourself at 13 and it is still with you at 17, it needs to be dropped.

It's been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.