Where should one use perfume? A young woman asked. Wherever one wants to be kissed.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Great loves too must be endured. 

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

“A woman with good shoes is never ugly.”

“Fashion changes, but style endures.”

“Dress like you are going to meet your worst enemy today.”

“A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.”

“Elegance is refusal.”

“I don’t understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little—if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that’s the day she has a date with destiny. And it’s best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.”

“I don’t do fashion, I am fashion.”

“Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.”

“Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!”

"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."

"Fashion changes, but style endures."

"Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress."

"Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance."

"A woman can be overdressed but never over elegant."

"You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life."

"Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside."

"Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman."

"Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds."

"Elegance is refusal."

“Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.” 

“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” 

“so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.” 

“Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.” 

“You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it.” 

“Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.” 

“A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.” 

“we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud” 

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn.” 

“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.” 

“One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!” 

“If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?” 

“Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.”

“I do not like to write - I like to have written.” 

“When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses.” 

“Decisions are best made by the people affected by them.” 

“Also, one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.” 

“This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.” 

“We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach. ” 

“If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.” 

“Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.” 

“Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.” 

“Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.” 

“Remember: "For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost, for want of a horseshoe, the horse was lost, for want of a horse, the battle was lost, for want of a battle, the war was lost." This parable should be the mantra of everyone who thinks her or his vote doesn't count.” 

“Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.” 

“Each others' lives are our best textbooks.”