Blood-magic Quote by Gail Dayton

“She gathered herself up- rather like collecting her skirts before mounting a carriage”

— Gail Dayton

“She holstered her weapon, raising the hem of her skirts and stepping lightly around the dead bodies.”

— A.F. Stewart

“She fastened the invisible corset of her composure snugly around herself and prepared to move forward with her plan.”

— Amanda Quick

“Years later when she was being eccentric, had shed her corset and let her arse spread unhindered by anything but her perpetual dressing gown.”

— Peter Carey

“Near the kiosk the old lady who sold refreshments seemed slowly to be gathering all the shadows of evening about her skirts.”

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“Within her the core of rebellion hardened. She would dress as she chose, because clothes and appearance were part of a woman’s armor in…

— Elizabeth Chadwick

“She did not understand why women complicated their lives with corsets and petticoats, so she sewed herself a coarse cassock that she simply put…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“she goes out to the clothesline to hang a few things, his things, her things, and a load of tea cloths.”

— Edna O'Brien

“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

“My skirts aren’t a theater curtain for you to peep through,” she hissed. “Impatient for the show to begin,” he answered, unrepentant.”

— Zoe Archer

“Thing is, he says, in my line of work, you spend a lot of time sittin. A dress lets the breeze up...cool yer dingles…

— Moira Young

“So boasting of her capacity to surround and protect, there was scarcely a shell of herself left for her to know herself by; all…

— Virginia Woolf