glitteringspark:

 Do you consider yourself a “cool girl”?

That idea sent an electric current through everyone who read the book. I think everyone can identify in some sort of slightly guilty way with that idea, because in the culture that we live in, I think it’s really hard to escape not enjoying the mutability of self that everything gives us. You know, clothes, hair, makeup, Facebook, selfies, all the rest — we’re given all the tools to be self-editing. I don’t subscribe to it now. For me, cool is something that’s utterly authentic now. That’s my adult understanding of cool: somebody who’s relentlessly and truthfully themselves.