Kate Kennedy > Quotes

“Millennials aren’t rife with contradictions and allegedly falling behind because we’re these entitled, spoiled creatures. We were raised in preparation for a world that no longer exists and are forever trying to navigate the terms.”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“We planned our lives without a lot of information, making key life decisions more grounded in traditions, but are now in a world that’s inundated with information and, therefore, surrounded by opportunities that didn’t exist when we were planning our dreams.”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“In my bones, I don’t know how to not care the most.”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“The point is, I often feel too young to be taken seriously by older generations and, more recently, too old and irrelevant to be considered cool by younger generations, though lately, I’ve been wondering why we ever left the definition up to people on the outside in the first place.”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“Looking back on my girlhood I’m both charmed by my earnest devotion to semisexist things and horrified that they represented a set of options that seemed so comprehensive of my worldview, I didn’t even notice it was narrow. But when I think about the ever-present misogynistic trivializing of women’s interests, I also feel frustrated by the hypocrisy and want to defend all of this behavior vehemently. How dare they criticize the way we’ve chosen to decorate the boxes they’ve put us in?”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“But enforcement of the dress code rarely examined intentions; it just sexualized you by subjectively policing (and thus often discriminating against) the way clothes fit people’s bodies, disproportionately affecting some students more than others.”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“Can I call myself skinny if I’m stretched too thin?”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“I think I learned you move forward differently after the worst thing you can ever imagine happening actually happens.”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“Fortunately, Taylor Swift released the “All Too Well” ten-minute version in her Red (Taylor’s Version) release, and I think I speak on behalf of countless women when I say that scream-singing about someone being so “casually cruel in the name of being honest” healed a generation.”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“but like our “Fearless” leader once said, “If I’m dead to you, why are you at the wake?,” you know?”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“At my church of snoozin’, boats, and live music, we believe God spent an equal amount of time on all of us, we don’t claim He hates the same people He creates, and we trust people to know what’s best for them because they know themselves better than our judgments ever will.”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“People almost overcompliment you in the process of letting you down, and those are the words you’re left with to excavate once they’ve withheld further communication with you.”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“Gauchos were like buying curtains you didn’t measure correctly and then wearing them on your thighs.”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“From the outside looking in, you can’t understand it. From the inside looking out, you can’t explain it.”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“I'm sure you're thinking, "Is she honestly trying to claim she was indoctrinated into the patriarchy due to JC (son of God) and JC (Chasez) being in cahoots to love-bomb us via Scripture and/or song, causing us to believe these unrealistic highly respectful wholesome men need to save us, thus grooming us to be deferential and 'save' ourselves for them?" Yes, yes, I am. I'm not sure it's working, but these are the things I think about in my spare time. Is this conspiracy more or less believable than blue balls? I digress.”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“I’ll likely forever be seeking instead of settling into one way of thinking, but I maintain that spirituality has a lot more to do with the mutually understood contents of our soul between us and our creator than it does with controlling our earthly behaviors to appease any one modern leader’s quest for control.”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“It’s still one of my favorite movies ever, but if we can’t acknowledge they are the worst parents of all time, take me to the lakes where all the poets (and Meredith Blake almost) went to die, I don’t belong.”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“I think it’s interesting that many of us waited so long to be taken seriously, to grow up and come into our own, hopefully shedding ourselves of adolescent self-consciousness, only to enter the workforce and realize that, to our superiors, we weren’t defined by the growth we had achieved; to some people, we represented the enemy.”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“We’ve witnessed the metamorphosis (my favorite Hilary Duff album) of technology and communication not once or twice, but year after year.”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“I often feel too young to be taken seriously by older generations and, more recently, too old and irrelevant to be considered cool by younger generations,”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“Did someone put tariffs on imports? I am spilling this tea.”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“LYLAS!”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“We were raised in preparation for a world that no longer exists and are forever trying to navigate the terms.”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“By self-identifying as a person who lived for a sleepover (gets energy from small groups where observations are exchanged, likely to sleep on a bed) but not a slumber party (where entertainers thrive, pranks are played, and the invitation tells you to bring a sleeping bag), I was basically figuring out my introversion and an all-consuming desire for plush accommodations.”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“Yes, it’s exhausting to be me.”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“You keep going, keep reinventing yourself, because when life gives you lemons, you put nine in a bowl.”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“As long as people aren’t using their voices to hurt or exploit other people, most things to shrink or silence other women are kind of shitty, roundabout ways these forces manipulate you to collude with your own disappearance. Even though there’s no one right way to be, they shame you for the things they believe you shouldn’t be, hoping to turn you into a “mute model.”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“I just was confused by my multitudes; I think many of us were, since we weren’t opening up much about our inner worlds, thus assuming other people didn’t possess similar complexities and there must be something wrong with us.”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“I am horrified by the thought that they’d believe they did something wrong or that something was taken from them. I’m horrified that any well-meaning adult would allow a person to feel at fault for something that has nothing to do with matters that are spiritual and everything to do with behavior that is criminal.”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

“about mental health is by hearing and seeing other people talk about it online whom I related to, and if they could normalize it, so could I.”
― Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In