skirt quotes

Los servidores acumulan los privilegios de la miseria†conservan los instrumentos de la venganza porque van acumulando en sus manos a  speras y verrugosas esa otra mitad de sus patrones, la mitad in u til, descartada, lo sucio y lo feo que ellos†les han ido entregando con el insulto de cada enagua gastada que les regalan. Servants accumulate the privileges of misery† They save up the instruments of vengeance because their coarse warty hands collect, bit by bit, that other side of their employersthe useless, discarded side, the filth and the sordidness that†they've been putting into their servants' hands with the insult of each shabby skirt they gave them.

- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
  El obsceno pa  jaro de la noche, ch.4 (translated as The Obscene Bird of Night,1973).

When a man says he likes a woman in a skirt, I tell him to try one.

- Katharine Hepburn
  WETA  TV broadcast, Washington, 27  Jun.

   It's my manifest destiny to wear a skirt in all countries.

- Eddie Izzard
Quoted on www.theonionavclub.com, 31  Jan.

It is at thesetimesthat you realisethe blessings of a good thick skirt† Save for a good many bruises, here I was with the fulness of my skirt tucked under me, sitting on nine ebony spikes some twelve inches long, in comparative comfort.

- Mary Henrietta Kingsley
  Travels in West  Africa (published1899).

So fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.

-Wolfgang Rudolph Schmitt
  A Shocking Life, ch.9.