From Calamity Jane to Carrie Bradshaw we collected our favorite empowering quotes by women about clothes showing the variety of ways women embrace or reject clothes.
1.“I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby.” — Anne Hathaway
2. “When we were children, every day after school, my brother and sister and I would go to my mother’s office. It was full of pencils and marker and fabrics and beads. It was so much fun to be a child and to express my creativity through drawing and to playing dress-up in all of the wonderful and colorful clothes.” — Margherita Missoni
3. “I like me better naked. I don’t mean that in a vain way… When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don’t have any clothes on, it’s just you, raw, and you can’t hide.” — Padma Lakshmi
4. “When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men’s clothes.” — Calamity Jane
5. “The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don’t wear her.” — Mary Quant
6. “It’s important for a woman to feel good in her clothes. It’s OK to have curves and to work them.” — Nicole Scherzinger
7. “I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can’t wear anything sleeveless or strapless. And all of a sudden I was like, What if I just didn’t send such negative messages to my brain and said, wear it and enjoy it? And now I’m more comfortable in clothes than ever.” — Drew Barrymore
8. “Putting on someone else’s clothes is like putting on a mask.” — Nancy Jo Sales
9. “I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.” — Victoria Justice
10. “I’ve used a stylist twice, and that was when I didn’t have time to go shopping or pick up an outfit for a photo shoot. I think you should dress yourself, have fun with it – it’s only clothes.” — Imelda May
11. “I don’t like shopping, and I like my clothes to be comfortable.” — Norah Jones
12. “The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.” — Virginia Woolf
13. “Makeup is no different than clothes and accessories – it’s embellishments for your face. And it also gives you creative freedom. You get to have that moment in front the mirror every morning and give yourself self-love. You’re making yourself up beautiful, which is essentially self-love.” —Michelle Phan
14. “I like my money right where I can see it: hanging in my closet.” — Carrie Bradshaw
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