Linda Grant famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever owned in all your life, each baby shoe and winter coat and wedding dress, you would have your autobiography.
-- Linda Grant

#Fashion #Baby #Winter
The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.
-- Linda Grant

#Mother #Daughter #War
When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.
-- Linda Grant

#Proud #Penguins #Modern
Reading wasn't my religion - it was my oxygen.
-- Linda Grant

#Reading #Oxygen
A new dress. Is this all it takes to make a new beginning, this shred of dyed cloth, shaped into the form of a woman's body?
-- Linda Grant

#New Beginnings #Dresses #Body
Revenge is so much more satisfying than regret.
-- Linda Grant

#Revenge #Regret
It's not the punch you expect that knocks you down.
-- Linda Grant

#Expectations #Surprise
The clothes you wear are a metamorphosis. They change you from the outside in.
-- Linda Grant

#Clothes #Metamorphosis
I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'
-- Linda Grant

#Coffee #Book #Imagination
I'm a really hectic dreamer; I never wake up not out of a dream, and there's loads going on, lots of action, big blockbuster dreams, they're all major enterprises.
-- Linda Grant

#Dream #Wake Up #Action
I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience. You went o r you didn't, but the fact of it and the decisions it forced us to make marked us for the rest of our lives, just as the depression and World War II had marked my parents.
-- Linda Grant

#Depression #War #Decision
Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble actions and that we were capable of sacrificing honor to a sense of efficacy.
-- Linda Grant

#War #Sacrifice #Honor

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