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" Success doesn't happen overnight. "
Petra Collins
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" I was very depressed at a young age and felt like I didn't have agency towards that. Being 'female' meant I couldn't be that - I couldn't be angry, loud, sullen. Being sad meant I was weak. "
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" You don't have to wait for anyone's approval to do things. "
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" I wish I didn't think about what my body looks like. It can be done - it's just a long process. "
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" When you see stories about women that aren't being told by women, it can make you feel like you don't exist. "
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" My style motto is pretty classic: you give off a positive energy when you wear what you're most comfortable in. "
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" I just think it's crazy that we don't think that the youth are valid. They're the ones who really know what's going on. "
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" Just like any other girl, I felt pressure to look a certain way. Act a certain way. "
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" Women are inherently told their bodies are objects, so that's how we treat them. "
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" I keep this Hungarian wooden candlestick on the top of my refrigerator along with all my other candles. It's big and ugly, especially next to all my pretty candles, and it doesn't really make sense to have in my apartment. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm definitely a Sagittarius. I'm such a fire sign. "
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" My lens and my personality, it's just fluid. The art isn't just in one place. "
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" 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. "
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" How girls perceive themselves is interesting, and how they act when they're looking in the mirror. "
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" I did two years at art school in criticism and curatorial practice, but I dropped out because I was frustrated that there was this hierarchy where I couldn't do anything or ask questions. "
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" I look for subjects who have stories to tell - who are looking to tell something. "
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" I grew up on Facebook; it's a different realm I live in. For some people, this is inauthentic, but for me, it's all I know. "
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" From the beginning of puberty, I did really badly in school. I was super dyslexic; I was in special ed. I had a hard time reading and writing, so I thought that my self worth was in my looks, how I presented myself, and how other people perceived me. "
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