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Quote by Virginia Woolf
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. – Virginia Woolf

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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. – Virginia Woolf

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If we help an educated mans daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? – Virginia Woolf

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Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. – William Hazlitt, On the Clerical Character, 1819

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I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims

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Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. – Elsa Schiaparelli

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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater… suggest that he wear a tail. – Fran Lebowitz

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