“Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.”

“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”

“She smoothes the front of the dress, looking down at her hands, at her bitten fingernails, at her big feet in the pointy-toes shoes. This is a woman's dress, she thinks, a young woman's dress. It is not a girl's dress. It is solidly on the other side of the line outside of girlhood. It is a dress that says something big in a very quiet way; it is a dress that is talking to Alice right now, a dress that is making her feel possibilities never before considered, the possibility of perfume and pretty and dancing and boys. This dress is who she might be, only more so.”

“I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.”

“A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.”

“When a woman smiles,then her dress should smile to”