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" 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. "

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" I love Top 40 pop, don't get me wrong; I just don't think that there's anyone in Top 40 pop that's 'real.' "

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" If I'm going to dress up, I like things that are quite long and classic. I like feeling dressed up and like a lady. "

" When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I was a little kid, I have been really into royals and aristocracy. So to make Lord more feminine, I just put an 'e' on the end! Some people think it's religious, but it's not. "

" I'd refer to myself as a feminist. I don't think my music is overtly rooted in feminism. I'm a teenager, and 95 percent of my friends are boys, and that's just the way I've always been. "

" Nobody asks me about what male musicians I think about; I only ever get asked about females. "

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" I think it would be impossible not to be an Internet kid, coming from New Zealand, because culturally it's a little barren. "

" I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and people will be like, 'Oh, this person isn't a true feminist because they don't embody this one thing,' and I don't know, often it can be a gray area, and it can be a hard thing to navigate. "

" I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars. "

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" I'm, like, the most terrible person to go to a party with in the world, because I just can't enjoy it. I'm just thinking all the time about what it means and what the implications are. "

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" I've been in some situations where people have treated me like a fascinating toy. You know, it's just like an interesting kind of fun thing to have a play with. It's very weird for me. I feel like a tiny baby. "

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