Independence : (1278)

" Honestly, in retrospect, it probably was a little easier being an adolescent and not having people immediately know that Hef was my dad. " - Christie Hefner

" There’s something different about growing up black and Muslim, especially in New Jersey. It’s like when I left the mosque and I left my dad, I felt unprotected, but I also felt a weird sense of pride, like I was involved in this other way of living that was cool to me. " - SZA

" I so think it’s limiting to define an audience ahead of time. This is something I’ve brought on myself by being like, ‘There are no ‘real’ teen publications! That’s what I’ll do!’ But then it’s like, well, if I want ‘Rookie’ to be successful and popular, then people will invalidate the realness by saying it’s popular and mainstream. " - Tavi Gevinson

" I never want my children to ever feel like they need to be a SEAL, or that they need to go into medicine, or be an astronaut in order to please me – because I don’t think that’s very fair. I just want them to live their own lives. I don’t hesitate at every opportunity to remind my children of that. " - Jonny Kim

" The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by the pine-knots of the fat pitch-pine, which, of course, were found everywhere in the greatest plenty in the forests. " - Alice Morse Earle

" We are the hero of our own story. " - Mary McCarthy

" I grew up with three older brothers, so I’m very much a tomboy in real life. " - Yvonne Orji

" It’s important to have girlfriends, because guys tend to come and go. " - Ashley Tisdale

" I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player – I’m not. " - Rufus Wainwright

" I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn’t want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them. " - Robert Smith