Elizabeth Hawes Quotes

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Rule number one for all American women: You are to be seen and felt, but not heard. Listen and do as you are told and everything will be all right.

Elizabeth Hawes
After marriage, all things change. And one of them better be you.

Elizabeth Hawes
Is woman a lost sex? If so, is she the only lost sex? Has woman alone conceived all the vipers in our land?

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All changes in clothes rise out of the lives of the people who wear them. The function of the designer is simply to see a little ahead of time what the people want, and to provide it. No designer can start anything really new and different unless there is a public all ready for it...

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If one is willing to have children, rhythm is probably the best method of contraception.

Elizabeth Hawes
It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.

Elizabeth Hawes
If you are the type who truly longs to be a Southern Belle at all times, regardless of taking twice the space available in bus, subway or elsewhere, you had best remove yourself to a large estate replete with servants.

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The process of education is not generally a process of teaching people to think and ask questions. It... is mostly one of teaching the young what is and getting them into a mood where they will go on keeping it that way.

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No garment which distorts the shape and motion of the wearer is beautiful, nor s any garment beautiful which emphasizes more than one or at most two of your sexual characteristics.

Elizabeth Hawes
You are being trained to be a Queen, but you do not have to act like one until y ou get your own hive. Being a Queen will not overtax you as you will never be called upon to use your mind on any major matter. You will use the National Mind, their mind. It's very restful...

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Women want to wear what they do because of what goes on in their heads. Their size and shape have practically nothing to do with it.

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Yesterday people were permitted to change things. They will be permitted to advocate changing them tomorrow. It is only dangerous to think of changing anything today.

Elizabeth Hawes