Being young is greatly overestimated ... Any failure seems so total. Later on you realize you can have another go. — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison. — Mary Quant Copy Share
I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited. — Mary Quant Copy Share
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. — Mary Quant Copy Share
I liked my skirts short because I wanted to run and catch the bus to get to work. — Mary Quant Copy Share
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 Copy Share
One day, a new fabric appeared on the scene. PVC was shiny, waterproof, and unlike anything I'd ever seen before. — Mary Quant Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking. — Mary Quant Copy Share
Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence. — Mary Quant Copy Share
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 Copy Share
