Quotes by Taylor Swift

Ill bet shes beautiful, that girl he talks about, and shes got everything that I have to live without... Hes the reason for the teardrops on my guitar, the only one whos got enough of me to break my heart. Hes the song in the car I keep singing; dont know why I do.

We were both young when I first saw you. I close my eyes and the flashback starts. Im standin there on a balcony in summer air.

You take a deep breath and you walk through the doors. Its the morning of your very first day. You say hi to your friends you aint seen in a while, try and stay out of everybodys way. Its your freshman year and your gonna be here for the next four years in this town. Hopin one of those senior boys will wink at you and say, You know I havent seen you around before. Cause when youre fifteen and somebody tells you they love you, youre gonna believe them. And when youre fifteen, feelin like theres nothin to figure out, but, count to ten, take it in. This is life before you know who youre gonna be. Fifteen.

You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.

And for once a band of thieves in ripped up jeans got to rule the world

There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second category of love is called just another lesson

At some point you have to forget about grudges because they only hurt.

Just because as human beings, what we cant have is what we reply in our head over and over again before we go to sleep.

If you’re the girl that needs a boyfriend, and once she loses that boyfriend needs to replace it with a different boyfriend, it’s just this constant stream of boyfriends all the time. I don’t feel like I ever want to be that girl. I want to be the girl that when she falls in love, it’s a big deal and it’s a rare thing.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

Just being a human being, I’ve realized that before every big problem you create for yourself, before every huge mess you have to clean up, there was a crucial moment where you could’ve just said no.

There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know who you’re going to fall in love with. You never know who’s going to come into your life – and for me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

If you think about human nature, our favourite pair of shoes are the ones we bought yesterday, our favourite thing is the newest thing that we have…and the thing we’ve seen the most and for the longest period of time is our reflection in the mirror, so obviously that’s going to be our least favourite thing.

I hope you know that youve given me the courage to change. I hope you know that who you are is who you choose to be, and that whispers behind your back dont define you. You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

I think when it comes to females in the media you’ll see something that kind of upsets me which is that females are pinned up against each other more so than men. You know, for example like you never see online “vote for who has the better butt - this actor or this actor.” It’s always like this female singer and this female singer. And you get to vote. I mean, it’s daily I see these things and these polls like “let us know who’s sexier, who’s the hotter momma” and I just don’t see it like “who’s the hotter dad” you know? I think that one thing that I do believe as a feminist is that in order for us to have gender equality we have to stop making it a girl fight and we have to stop being so interested in seeing girls trying to tear each other down, it has to be more about cheering each other on as women. That’s just kind of how I feel about it.

I wish [that when] I was 12 years old Id been able to watch a video of my favourite actress explaining in such an intellectual, beautiful, poignant way the definition of feminism — I would have understood it and then earlier on in my life I would have proudly claimed that I was a feminist, because I would have understood what the word means.

You’re going to have people who are going to say ‘Oh, you know like, she just writes songs about her ex-boyfriends’ and I think frankly that’s a very sexist angle to take. No one says that about Ed Sheeran. No one says it about Bruno Mars. They’re all writing songs about their exes, their current girlfriends, their love-life, and no one raises a red flag there.

My girlfriends and I talk a lot about feminism and the inequality between the way men and women are talked about, the kind of things we say are, ‘Why is it mischievous, fun and sexy if a guy has a string of lovers that he’s cast aside; loved and left? Yet if a woman dates three or four people in an eight-year period she is a serial dater and it gives some 12-year-old the idea to call her a ‘slut’ on the internet?’ It’s not the same for boys, it just isn’t and that’s a fact.

You know, I went out on a normal amount of dates in my early 20s, and I got absolutely slaughtered for it. And it took a lot of hard work and altering my decision-making. I didn’t date for two and a half years. Should I have had to do that? No.

Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didnt need a man; be that girl who never backed down.