Shirley Chisholm
Politician, Educator
"Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt."
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Skirts
57 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Dorothy Parker
Poet, Writer, Critic
"If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you."
Alveda King
Activist
"A woman knows a skirt-chaser."
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once."
Charles Bukowski
Poet, Novelist
"Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline."
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"The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath."
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"If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under my feet, my life would have no meaning and I would not have been able to write anything."
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"Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then"
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"The hours trip rapidly away, hiding their dreams in their skirts."
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"A query letter should be like a skirt. Long enough to cover everything, but short enough to be exciting."
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"And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor - And this, and so much more? -"
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"We saw The Man From La Mancha, and I remember there was a scene where the woman's skirt fell off, and I got embarrassed and excited at the same time."
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"Whatever power there is in the urban pictures is bound to the closeness with which they skirt banality. For a shot to be good — suggestive of more than just what it is — it has to come perilously near being bad, just a view of stuff."
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"Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never."
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