Skirts Quotes - Page 10

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

Honore de Balzac

Naked, Nudity, Dangerous

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When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.

Honore de Balzac

Pride, Animal, Earth

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The idea that men 'lose control' around a woman in a short skirt is insulting to men, completely relieves perpetrators of responsibility, and erases and ignores male victims.

Laura Bates

Responsibility, Men, Ideas

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We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on.

Gloria Steinem

Children, Care, St Patrick

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As I do not live in an age when rustling black skirts billow about me, and I do not carry an ebony stick to strike the floor in sharp rebuke, as this is denied me, I rap out a sentence in my note book and feel better. If a grandmother wants to put her foot down, the only safe place to do it these days is in a note book.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

Book, Rap, Grandmother

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In some remote regions of Islam it is said, a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.

Raymond Mortimer

Islam, Faces, Stranger

Raymond Mortimer (1976). “Try anything once”, Hamish Hamilton

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Oh, I wish it were in my power to put men in the place of fashionable women for one six months! They should curl their hair, consult the milliner, make spongecake, do a little embroidery, wear long skirts, and dress so tightly that they could scarcely breathe.

Lucy Stone

Men, Hair, Long

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To think there are men who dare so defile a church, a sacred sanctuary dedicated to God. We have to hold up our skirts and walk tiptoe, so covered is the floor, the aisle and pews, with the dark shower of tobacco juice.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

Dark, Men, Thinking

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In women's shelters the kind of clothes that women are given to go to job interviews are all girl clothes: little heels, little skirt. If you're gender nonconforming, you're a lesbian, you're not going to put those clothes on to go to a job interview.

Amber Hollibaugh

Girl, Jobs, Clothes

Source: www.truth-out.org

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Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.

Kenneth R. Miller

Girl, Baseball, Growing Up

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If you're a young woman in Hollywood, then they want you to look a certain way and paint you in this and that. To this day, it's hard to find people like us, who want to kind of find deep truths, not just skirt above the top of it.

Sherilyn Fenn

People, Hollywood, Looks

"Sherilyn Fenn talks David Lynch and how Twin Peaks should have ended". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. January 22, 2014.

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How can I say what it was like to breathe again? I felt newborn. I staggered in the light of the world and took deep gulps of fresh sea air. It was late in the day: the wet mouth of the afternoon was full on my face. My soul blossomed in that brief moment as they led me out of doors. I fell, my skirts in the mud, and I turned my face upwards as if in prayer. I could have wept from the relief of light.

Hannah Kent

Prayer, Light, Air

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A skirt is no obstacle to extemperaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is wearing trousers.

Helen Lawrenson

Girl, Sex, Making Love

Helen Lawrenson (1968). “Latins are Still Lousy Lovers”

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My front door had seen jean skirts, dresses, even a see-through tube dress over a string bikini. A handful of times, spackled-on makeup and glitter lotion. Never pajamas.

Jamie McGuire

Makeup, Doors, Dresses

Jamie McGuire (2013). “Walking Disaster: A Novel”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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The early twenties when we drank wood alcohol and every day in every way grew better and better, and there was a first abortive shortening of the skirts, and girls all looked alike in sweater dresses, and people you didn't want to know said "Yes, we have no bananas," and it seemed only a question of a few years before the older people would step aside and let the world be run by those who saw things as they were--and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings any more.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Girl, Running, Years

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The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health--congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher.

Calvin Trillin

Baseball, Stars, Ambition

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[The] BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she's a champagne-soaked floozie, her skirts in disarray, her mind in the gutter, and the mixture can be quite wonderful.

Morley Safer

Mind, Gutters, Auntie

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We spoke of ourselves as "emancipated" when we got the vote. Yet we are still slaves to the superficial and the superfluous. We are concerned with the length of our skirts, with the latest lipstick, with the newest thrill in hats. We are impressed by advertisements that insist we must be alluring; we must adopt a time-consuming coiffure, we must spend hours with the "beautician," we must attend fashion shows. As long as women are preoccupied with nonessentials we shall be afflicted with infantilism, passivity, and the eventual disillusionment that results from trivial, unproductive lives.

Mary Barnett Gilson

Fashion, Long, Thrill

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...I discovered that I could take a risk and survive. I could march in Philadelphia. I could go out in the street and be gay evenin a dress or a skirt without getting shot. Each victory gave me courage for the next one.

Martha Shelley

Courage, Gay, Philadelphia

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...there was the annual Fourth of July picketing at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. ...I thought it was ridiculous to have to go there in a skirt. But I did it anyway because it was something that might possibly have an effect. I remember walking around in my little white blouse and skirt and tourists standing there eating their ice cream cones and watching us like the zoo had opened.

Martha Shelley

Zoos, Ice Cream, July

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It's a big deal about whether or not gays can march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade and I have to say that on some level I kind of see their point. Because when you think about it, it is a real macho heterosexual event. Bunch of guys in short skirts on a cart made of rose pedals sharing a bag pipe. That's not for sissies.

Laura Kightlinger

Real, Gay, Thinking

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Colored leather is my favorite. To me, there's nothing more fun than wearing a cobalt blue leather skirt or a fuchsia leather jacket.

Mindy Kaling

Fun, Blue, Leather Jackets

"Mindy Kaling on Her Dream Mindy Project Guest Star and Style Tips From Mindy Lahiri". Interview with Anna Moeslein, www.glamour.com. November 27, 2013.

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I wanted to be a comedian, I wanted people to laugh at what I was saying, not to be staring at my boobs or wearing a skirt and show off my ... I just didn't think that that was the best way to get taken seriously in that world.

Chelsea Handler

Taken, Thinking, Laughing

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The goal of feminist spirituality has never been the simple substitution of Yahweh-with-a-skirt. Rather, it seeks, in all its diversity, to revitalize relational, body-honoring, cosmologically grounded spiritual possibilities for women and all others.

Charlene Spretnak

Spiritual, Simple, Diversity

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I'm all about high-waisted pants and skirts, pencil skirts, and sheer, long-sleeves in the summer.

Katerina Graham

Summer, Long, Pants

"Exclusive: The Vampire Diaries' Kat Graham on Heartbreak, The Spice Girls, and Wearing Black in the Summer". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. August 20, 2012.

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