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Don’t be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.

Lorde

I’m terrified of growing up. Once you become an adult, how to you step back from that? It’s something that wakes me up at night.
LORDE

Adult Grow Up Night
The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: strength.
LORDE

Career Fashion People Thinking
I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.
LORDE

Money Shopping
People have told me that Ive helped them feel confident, like they can say things they want to say. They can talk about feminism in class without people calling them a lesbian. Thats so amazing that I can make someone feel like that.
LORDE

Class Feminism People
I’ve totally learned in this process that 99% of the time, your gut is right, and you know what’s right for you. I know exactly what’s right for my career and for my art, and sometimes, even if the whole room is saying, ‘Don’t do that, don’t do that,’ you know that doing that is going to be good for you, in the long run.
LORDE

Art Badass Motivational Time
Glory and gore go hand in hand.
LORDE

Glory Hands Life
Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.
LORDE

Flower People Sunflower Wild
What I do is so important to me. It’s like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding , high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.
LORDE

Children Important Parent
We’re bigger than we ever dreamed, and I’m in love with being queen.
LORDE

Dreams Queen
Of course I got lipstick all over my lil’ nose in about 5 seconds, nothing’s changed.
LORDE

Change Lipstick Make Up
The smarter the person, the more boring the instagram account.
LORDE

Bore Smart Social Media
Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don’t think it’s breeding anything good in young girls.
LORDE

Breed Flawless Girl Thinking
David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow
LORDE

Music Sound Tomorrow
Don’t be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.
LORDE

Afraid Kind Mother Person
I think I’m speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn’t even be something that people find mildly surprising. It’s just a part of being a girl in 2013.
LORDE

Girl Reality Thinking
We’re so happy, even when we’re smiling out of fear.
LORDE

Fear Happiness Smile

Don’t be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.

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