Clothes Quote by Elizabeth Winder

“She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She skied recklessly. While Sylvia's rabid perfectionism…

— Elizabeth Winder

“Cyrilly expected Sylvia – as an intelligent and ambitious young woman – to walk around pale-mouthed and flat-shoed. She saw intellectual inclinations and a…

— Elizabeth Winder

“Sylvia was a lady and would not allow herself really to care for the person in the world for whom it would be least…

— Ford Madox Ford

“Sylvia possessed a deeply conditioned respect for authority. She wanted desperately to live up to the expectations of a society that viewed her as…

— Elizabeth Winder

“I began to realize, with some little horror, that she was nothing more than a lowbrow, pop-psychology version of Sylvia Plath. It lasted forever,…

— Donna Tartt

“However vivid they might be, past images and future delights did not protect Sylvia from the present, which "rules despotic over pale shadows of…

— Elizabeth Winder

“Then she walked, walked flat out, walked with an ache coming up through the earth and into the heel of her striking foot. No…

— Alice Sebold

“A plaster girl with intense glass eyes sat astride a bicycle pedaling at the maddest pace; though its wheel spokes spun hypnotically, the bicycle…

— Truman Capote

“Listen, I traipse no I run no I sprint--a fat, impotent ghoul sprung straight from the cellar of my childhood home--past the pregnant girl…

— Leland Pitts-Gonzalez

“she was the kind of woman who only gave herself away in small doses, leaving men wandering like little children at all that she…

— Christopher Poindexter

“She wanted to surprise everyone by her dash and originality, but she could not help modeling herself on the last person she met, and…

— Edith Wharton

“She was the quintessential twenty-first-century woman: She could build a high-rise in a Chanel suit and Jimmy Choos, give lessons in multitasking, and freeze…

— Donna Ball