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

- Alison Lurie

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

- Alison Lurie

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

- Alison Lurie

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.

- Alison Lurie

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

- Alison Lurie

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…

- Alison Lurie

The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accep…

- Alison Lurie

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

- Alison Lurie

Even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who we are, where we come from, what we like to do in …

- Alison Lurie