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" I'm either working or I'm lying in bed the entire day. "

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" It's hard for every girl to accept their body. This is something that I try to work on every day to set a good example. "

" My favorite place to go is Zabriskie Point in Death Valley. If you see it at sunrise and sunset, it's like you're on Mars. "

" Being taken seriously as a young woman is the biggest hurdle as I grow older. "

" We live in such an image-heavy world that not seeing yourself in that landscape can really make it tough to feel human, to feel like you are part of the world. "

" I started out taking photos of my friends on, like, disposable cameras, and I documented my younger sister and her friends all through high school. "

" I'm thin and white and blond, but I'm not an airbrushed, perfect thing. I have stretch marks all over. I have cellulite; I have acne. To me, it feels like you can't really be what you can't see, and so if you don't see those things, then you don't feel like you're valid. "

" My lens and my personality, it's just fluid. The art isn't just in one place. "

" Curating, in the modern sense, is something I gravitate to. Taking different ideas from a bunch of different places and putting them into one place or space, a story that makes sense or a new idea. Everything is remixed and taken from other things to make something new. "

" Women's emotions are constantly labeled. Any slight deviation from 'pleasantness,' and we are labeled as hysterical. When we are angry, sad, depressed, or manic, we are immediately seen as unfeminine or ugly or weak. "

" I consider myself endlessly lucky to have access to the Internet and technology. Through it, I've found myself and have been able to join a new discourse of females, young and old, who strive to change the way we look and treat ourselves. "

" Putting your work out there is scary! "

" I post all the time anyway. It's part of who I am. There's me IRL. There's me URL. That's just my life. Plus, I love it. It's amazing to connect with so many people. "

" For me, being in a car listening to music has always been my one spot to think. "

" I was depressed at a very young age - mental illness runs in my family, especially on the female side. "

" I remember being 12 or 13 and reading 'Seventeen' and 'CosmoGirl.' They were all about self-improvement. "

Self-Improvement

" The selfie is a powerful tool, but it can also be dangerous, and I am fascinated with the process of it because there is a level of self-monitoring. "

" As a young woman, I was disturbed by the fact that there was no imagery that truly expressed the experience of a young woman and the challenges and turbulence we go through. All we had were teenage magazines like 'Cosmopolitan,' which are very one-sided and show an objectified view of women. "

" I'm used to seeing women being degraded, slut shamed, harassed for what they look like. Even the most powerful women in the world are measured by their appearance and constantly ridiculed for it. "

" I think it's important for not just me but women of color, trans women, and people who are marginalized to be telling stories of themselves. It's important for us to be behind the lens. "

" I'm definitely a Sagittarius. I'm such a fire sign. "

" Live what you support online; do things. "

" Just like any other girl, I felt pressure to look a certain way. Act a certain way. "

" People are always like, 'Did you purposely do something to make people uncomfortable?' And I say the reason why it's uncomfortable is because it's either something that we can't talk about or aren't supposed to talk about, and they're images that aren't ever seen. "

" When a woman is anything but pleasant, she is labeled as whiny, hysterical, etc. "

" I'm used to being told by society that I must regulate my body to fit the norm. I'm used to the fact that images of unaltered women are seen as unacceptable. "

" If I have extra money, I always love to support my friends who're making art. "

" When I was 16, I created this online platform for female artists. I messaged women who I loved; that's how I got work and connected with people. You don't need to plead for entry into a system that doesn't want you anyway. "

" I think being collaborative is definitely more natural for people who are minorities in any sense - so people who aren't, like, white male artists - because we don't have the privilege to create art and work alone, usually. "

" When you see stories about women that aren't being told by women, it can make you feel like you don't exist. "

" I didn't really have an identity crisis because I really, really knew who I always wanted to be But I definitely had a lot of problems with my body. I was very skinny, and I guess my body was sort of pre-pubescent, but when I grew hips and thighs, I just didn't know where I was in the world. It was weird. "