Skirts Quotes - Page 8

• I just don't think America wants a female host. It's like men don't walk around in skirts in this country. Why change a good thing?

  Vanna White

  Country, Men, Thinking

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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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• 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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• 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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• Knitwear can play a vital part in layering. The simplicity of a lightweight cardigan makes it one of the best ways to layer outfits. I love granddad cardis for winter, worn over a vintage lace shirt, waistcoat and full skirt with slouchy boots.

  Twiggy

  Winter, Vintage, Play

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• I'm five feet tall - I'm very petite - so for me, if I'm wearing a skirt or dress, it needs to be short, or else it makes me look frumpy. I need to wear either something really short or a maxi dress; anything in between just looks weird.

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Feet, Dresses, Needs

  "Keeping Up With Style". Interview with Emily Hebert, www.elle.com. August 18, 2011.

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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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• The last time I appeared in Las Vegas, they were wearing hoop skirts and Davy Crockett hats, ... But they say 'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.' And as far as fashion is concerned, that's a good thing.

  Joan Rivers

  Fashion, Vegas, Lasts

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• Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.

  Toni Morrison

  Life, Positive, Success

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

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• The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

  Michel de Montaigne

  Daughter, Men, Law

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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• Up with skirts, down with pants!'

  Edwin Edwards

  Pants

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• I think there's something charming about incorporating summer clothes into winter, like pairing a summery skirt with a massive sweater. I'm also really into layering during the winter!

  Debby Ryan

  Summer, Winter, Thinking

  "Debby Ryan's Winter Fashion And Beauty Tips". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. November 8, 2012.

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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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• 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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• I realized that I really, almost by accident, had fallen into a labyrinthine, very powerful paradigm for dealing with these things through genre films. And once I realized that and realized the power of it, and the fact that because horror films aren't, in general, studio products - studios back them sometimes, but they don't try to meddle too much, because they kind of don't want to sully their skirts - you have a lot of freedom.

  Wes Craven

  Powerful, Trying, Want

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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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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• The skirts of the gods Drag in our mud. We feel the touch And take it to be a kiss.

  Christopher Fry

  God, Kissing, Mud

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Plays Three”, Oberon Books Limited

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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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• The first design I created was a circular skirt for my Barbie when I was 7.

  Karen Walker

  Design, Barbie, Firsts

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• Whatever girl you are, every girl needs a really killer peg skirt in her closet. I don't care who you are. If you're the bohemian and you're wearing your big boyfriend sweater you need a peg skirt to reclaim your body. If you were the movie star, you might wear that with the push up tank like we have in the spring collection. It's all about body, body body. If you're the power player you put a jacket over that and work it that way. That item is for every girl, and every boy appreciated her in it.

  Byron Lars

  Girl, Stars, Spring

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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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