There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain...Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.

Be classy. Anything but trashy.

When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again.

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.

Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one;Loosens her fragrant bodice; by degreesHer rich attire creeps rustling to her knees.

The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep.

Happy girls are the prettiest

The great thing about fashion is that you can create a very unique version of yourself to display to the world.

Daphne Guinness was amazingly comfortable in her skin, and she has an amazing collection in fashion that I wish I could just touch.

Her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible,—or from one of our elder poets,—in a paragraph of to-day's newspaper.

But if she can marry blood, beauty, and bravery—the sooner the better.