Alive Today Quotes by Mary Quant

I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than fun.

— Mary Quant

Coco Chanel hated me. I can understand why.

— Mary Quant

As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.

— Mary Quant

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

— Mary Quant

I think to myself, 'You lucky woman - how did you have all this fun?'

— Mary Quant

The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage.

— Mary Quant

I liked my skirts short because I wanted to run and catch the bus to get to work.

— Mary Quant

I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted.

— Mary Quant

One day, a new fabric appeared on the scene. PVC was shiny, waterproof, and unlike anything I'd ever seen before.

— Mary Quant

I saw no reason why childhood shouldn't last forever. So I created clothes that worked and moved and allowed people to run, to jump,…

— Mary Quant

I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking.

— Mary Quant

I have been on a diet since 1962.

— Mary Quant

Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence.

— Mary Quant

People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.

— Mary Quant

The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1950s and sort of faded…

— Mary Quant