Clothings Quote by Alison Bechdel

“Nancy had neither seen nor heard of girls who dressed as boys and could think of no documentation on the topic through all her…

— Jenny Nordberg

I was obsessed with Nancy Drew growing up - I couldn't get enough.

— Alexandra Daddario

I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Why was fabulousness important? The world was a scary, sad place and adornment was one of the only ways she knew to make herself…

— Francesca Lia Block

When I was little, all I really wanted out of my life was to become Nancy Drew. I've always enjoyed fictional sleuths, especially Nancy.

— Lucy Worsley

“There was nothing, she saw at once, to be hoped for in the way of interest from their clothes. She did not consciously think…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“She did not greatly alter in appearance. The plain dark dresses, akin to mourning dresses, which she and her child wore, were as neat…

— Charles Dickens

“Like all of my important memories, it has a potency that has influenced the pocket of time that holds it, so I can remember…

— Paul Quarrington

“I found the world of the Little House books to be so much less confusing, not just because it was "simpler," as plenty of…

— Wendy McClure

“She was having a violent reaction against beautiful clothes and the slavery they impose on one, her experience being that the instant one had…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“...they lived in a curious but not unhappy isolation, though her father was a popular schoolteacher. Partly they were cut off by Sara’s heart…

— Alice Munro

“Girls had changed. They had liberated themselves from their corsets only to throw themselves at the tyranny of the "diet plan." They were all…

— Kate Morton