the fashion pages of magazines such as Cosmopolitan now seem to specialize in telling the career girl what to wear to charm the particular wrong type….

The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corpo….

We say something every morning when we decide how to dress..

There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too..

Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally approved of or eve….

in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call th….

There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The w….

We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power..

Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the worl….

You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern..

Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress for travel in ch….

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future..

When other people first became aware of the cow, they expressed concern and anxiety. They suggested strategies for getting the animal out of Molly's ….

We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent..

With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world..

If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies..

Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nig….

But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a kind of self-destructive shock….

Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever..

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world.

America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster ar….