Time Quote by Jorge Amado

“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 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

“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

“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

“If we wanted new clothes, we knew exactly how much he could spare and what cuts would have robe made elsewhere. The result was…

— Vivek Shanbhag

“What’s wrong with my clothing?' she asked, glancing down the length of her body, clothed in a tank top and shorts. He helped her…

— Suzannah Daniels

“She knew he would like taking it off; he tended to prefer her dresses on the floor rather than on her person.”

— Maya Rodale

“Perhaps there were two areas he didn’t go into: clothes, and his relationship with women.”

— Benoît Peeters

“By the time he got rid of her clothes, he might not be able to get his own off, or ever father children, but…

— Donna Kauffman

“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

“I have to admit that I'm up to my neck in frivolity, buried in dresses to the point of ruin! Fifteen different garments! My…

— Liane de Pougy

“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