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“I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven inch heels, four foot wigs, and skintight dresses?”

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Author:RuPaul

“Virgil has very finely touched upon the female passion for dress and shows, in the character of Camilla; who though she seems to have shaken off all the other weaknesses of her sex, is still described as a woman in this particular.”

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Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.”

Poverty Female Dresses Disguise Indication Caprice

Book:Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund

Source: Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund

“The moon is always female and so am I although often in the vale of razorblades I have wished I could put on and take off my sex like a dress and why not?”

Sex Moon Female Dresses Why Not

Book:Moon Is Always Female

Source: Moon Is Always Female

“The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious entertainments, midnight dances, and licentious spectacles, present at once temptation and opportunity to female frailty. From such dangers the unpolished wives of the barbarians were secured by poverty, solitude, and the painful cares of a domestic life.”

Source: The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith

“Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the citizens of Antioch. The arts of luxury were honoured; the serious and manly virtues were the subject of ridicule; and the contempt for female modesty and reverent age announced the universal corruption of the capital of the East.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.”

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Author:Christian Dior

“I think it's the source material. 27 Dresses was a famous book, and Devil Wears Prada was also a wonderful book, so it's coming out of the novelists who are really creating these wonderful female characters that we want to see on the big screen.”

“It's fine to dress in polka dots and pink crinoline if you want. What I recoil from is the idea that that alone is the only way to be female.”

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Author:Susan Faludi

“I exist in the zine/small press community, which has always felt more even keel to me, when it comes to creators of varied gender backgrounds. But I also think that there is something to be said about the fact that even though I am female, I present closer to male in my way of dress and attitude/confidence/outspokeness, so I am treated differently by my male counterparts in a positive way.”

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Author:Liz Prince

“Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.”

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Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“Susan hardly had begun to slow down when Tera appeared from between a couple of buildings and loped over to the car. I leaned forward, opened the door, and she got into the backseat. I threw her the extra clothes I had picked up, and she began to dress without comment. It worked," I said. "We did it." Of course it worked," Tera said. "Men are foolish. They will stare at anything female and naked.”

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Book:The Dresden Files Collection 1-6

Source: The Dresden Files Collection 1-6

“I tried to picture a female version of Jim and got Jim in a dress instead. The image was disturbing.”

Female Dresses Versions Disturbing

Book:Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel

Source: Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel