Gigi Hadid Quotes

When you're 13, you're still trying to figure out your style.

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.

I remember in seventh grade we used to wear lipstick to school, and the teachers would get so angry, and they'd steal our lipstick if we had them.

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

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

Every teenager feels like a freak. It's part of being a teenager, part of the individuation from child to adult - those teenage years are who am I? What am I? Where am I going?

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

I think all kids are rebellious. It's a part of growing up.

I watch a lot of teen TV and read a lot of YA novels. I also talk to teens whenever I can. There are cultural differences between when I was a teen and now, but emotions - anger, angst, love - are the same.

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.

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

In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.

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.

I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.

We lived by the water, and I was a pretty normal kid until my teenage years; then I dyed my hair pink and spiraled out of control.

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

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

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.

The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward.

'True School' is one great big reminder. It's a reminder to everybody in that middle school bracket that was in school when playing hard to get was out.

I never wore full-on eyeliner in high school, but I wanted to.

I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.