"I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them"
About this Quote
The subtext is defiance with a wink. Taylor isn't just chasing novelty; she's refusing the era's preferred script for female stars: be glamorous, be grateful, be discreet. "I'm not afraid" reads less like bravado than like a rebuttal to the cultural machinery designed to frighten women into compliance - gossip columns, studio contracts, the ever-present threat of being labeled "difficult". The quote quietly reclaims curiosity as a right.
Context does the heavy lifting. Taylor's life was a series of heavily surveilled "doors": multiple marriages and divorces, high-profile scandal, globe-sized fame, and later a pivot into AIDS activism when many powerful people were still pretending the crisis wasn't their problem. Seen through that arc, "look behind them" becomes a philosophy of appetite and investigation: go where you're told not to go, and don't apologize for what you find. It's confidence, yes - but also a survival strategy for someone who understood that the real danger often sits outside the room, holding the keys.
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| Topic | Adventure |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Taylor, Elizabeth. (2026, January 17). I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-feel-very-adventurous-there-are-so-many-doors-30988/
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Taylor, Elizabeth. "I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-feel-very-adventurous-there-are-so-many-doors-30988/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-feel-very-adventurous-there-are-so-many-doors-30988/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.









