A woman is as young as her knees.

- Mary Quant

Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves.

- Mary Quant

One of the things I've learned is never to horde ideas, because either they are not so relevant or they've gone stale. Whatever it is, pour it out.

- Mary Quant

The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.

- Mary Quant

Being young is greatly overestimated ... Any failure seems so total. Later on you realize you can have another go.

- Mary Quant

Only paper flowers are afraid of the rain.

- Mary Quant

All a designer can do is to anticipate a mood before people realize that they are bored. It is simply a matter of getting bored first

- Mary Quant

Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.

- Mary Quant

Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home

- Mary Quant