Skirts Quotes - Page 12

• I was wowed by Margo Jefferson's memoir, Negroland, which is about growing up black and privileged in Chicago in the fifties and sixties. It was a window into an alien world. Obviously, I'm not black, but what was really alien to me was her family's focus on respectability. I was never taught when to wear white gloves, what length skirt is appropriate.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Growing Up, White, Focus

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• I'm drawn to intergenerational tension, and it must have been strong in the 1920s: I wondered how Louise's [Brooks] generation of flappers appeared to the women who came of age at the beginning of the century - wearing corsets, long skirts, and high collars.

  Laura Moriarty

  Strong, Long, Age

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• I have the weirdest job. The hair and makeup people were talking the other day about how weird their job is. And costumes, they have to be in people's faces and have to reach in their skirts to pull their shirts down and stuff. I was like, "You guys, I meet someone, I shake their hand, and then I kiss them. And sober. During midday. For money."

  Mary Elizabeth Ellis

  Jobs, Kissing, Makeup

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I try not to respond with a pep talk, such as, "Everyone has talent, just try, you'll see." I skirt those kinds of answers.

  Jerry Pinkney

  Trying, Answers, Talent

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• Just as a dancer, turning and turning, may fill the dusty light with the soft swirl of her flying skirts, our weeping willow -- now old and broken , creaking in the breeze -- turns slowly, slowly in the winter sun, sweeping the rusty roof of the barn with the pale blue lacework of her shadow.

  Ted Kooser

  Winter, Light, Blue

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• I have always dressed a little bit differently, even when I was in school. I would wear skirts over pants because I went to a Christian private school and wanted to wear short skirts, but we had to wear skirts below our knees, so I put on a pair of jeans underneath so I could wear the skirt, too. When you become an artist you have to be so aware of what you're wearing all the time, but I've definitely wanted to stay classy, girlie, and feminine - I won't walk around in my bra or trashy clothes. I don't feel attractive that way.

  Stacie Orrico

  Christian, School, Artist

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's a reason hobble skirts are called hobble skirts. You literally can't move very far in them.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  Moving, Reason

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Distance, Adventure, Wings

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.59, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.

  Aretha Franklin

  White, Black, Singing

  "New again: Aretha Franklin". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 4, 2012.

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• I wear whatever makes me comfortable on stage, so that I feel confident. Some days it's a plaid skirt with a button-up and other days it's jeans with a hockey jersey and platforms.

  Sky Ferreira

  Hockey, Jeans, Buttons

  "Sky Ferreira Shares Her Coachella Packing Essentials". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. April 9, 2013.

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• I was convinced that acting was for fools. I was on the stage when I was eight with my father, he was playing one of those Greek blind guys that sees things and warns people, whilst I was in a blue skirt. I think there were 5,000 people in the theatre, it was ridiculous.

  Rutger Hauer

  Father, Thinking, Eight

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• A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

  Olive Schreiner

  Marriage, Beautiful, Love Is

  The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 4 (1883)

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• In L.A. summer's blistering heat, I've seen many girls wearing short skirts with Ugg boots. I like the boots, and the short skirts, but I've always wondered, don't their feet get hot?

  Jackson Rathbone

  Summer, Girl, Feet

  Interview with Julie Miller, www.seventeen.com. November 3, 2008.

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• I go through different phases and change my mind about my style all the time. In the winter, I wanted to wear jeans and pumps and black and leather all the time. Right now, I want to wear long skirts and belts, with my hair in a ponytail. It changes all the time!

  Heather Morris

  Winter, Hair, Jeans

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• I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars.

  Mary Oliver

  Stars, Dark, Fire

  Mary Oliver (1993). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  People, Want, Bills

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• Australia objects to the mini-skirt not on moral but on economic grounds. Australians are no prudes and the lovely, healthy, sporty Australian girls have no reason to hide their knees and thighs. However, the mini-skirt is disastrous for the wool-trade.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Girl, Humor

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• Start the week with a striking indigo skirt paired with an embroidered suede moto jacket.

  Lubov Azria

  Week, Indigo, Jackets

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• When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wore shorts, and the nurse said to me, in front of all my friends, that I was anorexic and that she had to monitor me to make sure I was eating. Because of that trauma, I never wore short pants or short skirts until I was 20.

  Hani Furstenberg

  Summer, Growing Up, Nurse

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• The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double standard, no matter how much you dress it up in feminist language. Instead of condemning young women for the length of their skirts, why not use that energy for condemning anyone who would think that a woman is lesser-than because she wears a miniskirt?

  Amanda Marcotte

  Thinking, Expression, Feminist

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• I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Moving, High Heels, Unattractive

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• Tailor your space to your needs. In one closet, I have upper and lower rods for skirts, pants and tops. The second is all shelves for bags and linens. In the third, there's just one rod for suits and dresses. To hang evening gowns, I use hooks on the ceiling.

  Thelma Golden

  Space, Tailors, Pants

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• The notion that Playboy turns women into sex objects is ridiculous. Women are sex objects. If women weren't sex objects, there wouldn't be another generation. It's the attraction between the sexes that makes the world go 'round. That's why women wear lipstick and short skirts.

  Hugh Hefner

  Sex, Generations, World

  "Being Hugh Hefner: The Playboy founder dishes on his love for blonds, Viagra and morality". Interview with Jacob E. Osterhout, www.nydailynews.com. August 1, 2010.

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• ...when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.

  Tyler Perry

  Differences, Dresses, Causes

  Tyler Perry (2007). “Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life”, p.48, Penguin

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• If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.

  Harriet Quimby

  Women, Clothes, Flying

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