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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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. – Virginia Woolf

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Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women? – Virginia Woolf

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But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying. – Virginia Woolf

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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. – Henry David Thoreau

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No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. – Frederick G. Banting

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The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself, their buttocks arrogant in tight jeans… – Fay Weldon

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The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. It must accompany its wearer and when a woman smiles the dress must smile with her. – Madeleine Vionnet

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