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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This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. – Virginia Woolf

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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. – Virginia Woolf

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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. – Virginia Woolf

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All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins? – George Bernard Shaw

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Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. – Janet Lane

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On the fourth day of telecommuting, I realized that clothes are totally unnecessary. – Scott Adams, "Dilbert"

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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse? – Roland Barthes

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