Lapel Quotes
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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More Lapel Quotes
At dawn, a railwaywomanOn a country platform whirls on the end of a chainAn irrelevant key, while a young guard makes to wipeA crumb from her lapel; and see, she smilesA permissory smile you take in from your corner seat:A cameo of unrehearsed perfection.
alan brownjohn— The Old Flea-Pit (1987)
Until recently, the question was 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' It should have been changed to 'Why can't both sexes be more like the best parts of each other?' Instead, the pendulum swung to the 1960s feminist lapel button Adam Was a First Draft. True enough. So are we all.
warren farrell— p. 310. (Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988))
