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"I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress."
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"Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim."
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"About six weeks later, she called because she had found a dress. And then she said yes."
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"An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up."
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"An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome."
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"Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress."
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"I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously."
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"They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes."
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"They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress."
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"Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?"
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"I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead."
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"The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!"
Family
"We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged."
People
"My mother was a politician in my formative years."
Family
"I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book."
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"I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life."
Life
"I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting."
Fiction
"Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid."
Woman
"My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild."
Family
"I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell."
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"If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us."
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