Drinking, when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals. – Pierre De Beaumarchais
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. – Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, 1907
Now, Im not saying Im fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion. – Miuccia Prada
