I think I learned some things about love, too. It doesn’t look the same for everyone. It can come in some many forms. And how can there be anything wrong with a life, if it’s spent with a person you love?

Anne with an E (2017 – 2019)

Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet for Entertainment Weekly by C. Schorr — Oct. 2019

‘Hi Mom and Dad, it’s me, Christine. It’s the name you gave me. It’s a good one. Dad, this is more for Mom. Hey, Mom, did you feel emotional the first time that you drove in Sacramento? I did and I wanted to tell you, but we weren’t really talking when it happened. All those bends I’ve known my whole life, and stores, and the whole thing. But I wanted to tell you I love you. Thank you, I’m… thank you.’

Lady Bird (2017) dir. Greta Gerwig

Hollywood usually likes to tell you what you are and I don’t want that. People see my face and they think it’s a prize. It’s something to win, something to get. I’m not a real person to them, I’m just something to check off their f****** list. How does that sound? Does it sound like fun to you? People walk out on pretty people all the time. Do you know how much shit I’ve carried around, had in my life, for this?

Do you know how long I’ve been called Cock Biter? Four years. People I’ve never met call me Cock Biter to my face. I bit Simon Furthassle’s scrote. I had sex with four guys at the same time. I fucked my second cousin. I’ll give you a hand job for a fiver if you like. Do you know how it started? Simon tried to kiss me at Claire Tyler’s 14th birthday. I said no. So he told everyone I’d given him a blow job and bitten his dick, and that was it. This kind of thing sticks.

Léa seydoux and Xavier Dolan ph. by Shayne Laverdiere for Madame Figaro — 2016

It’s like I’m reading a book, and it’s a book I deeply love. But I’m reading it slowly now, so the words are really far apart and the spaces between the words are almost infinite. I can still feel you, and the words of our story, but it’s in this endless space between the words that I’m finding myself now. It’s a place that’s not of the physical world. It’s where everything else is that I didn’t even know existed. I love you so much. But this is where I am now. And this is who I am now. And I need you to let me go. As much as I want to, I can’t live in your book anymore.

Her (2013) Dir. Spike Jonze

Feminism is not here to dictate to you. It’s not prescriptive, it’s not dogmatic. All we are here to do is give you a choice. If you want to run for President, you can. If you don’t, that’s wonderful, too. I’m lucky I was raised to believe that my opinion at the dinner table was valuable. My mum and I spoke as loudly as my brothers.

Emma Watson photographed by Kerry Callihan for ELLE UK — Dec. 2014