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" As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board. "

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" Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence. "

" I absolutely adore cows. They're the most fascinating, gentle and beautiful animals. Their eyes are so amazing. I have ten that live on the land around my house. I love to talk to them. There are few things better than falling asleep in a field and being woken up by an inquisitive cow. "

" Britain has always had more art schools per capita than any other country. "

" The real creators of miniskirt are the girls, the same that you seen in the streets. "

" I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited. "

" The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it. "

" As well as being a creative genius, Vidal Sassoon was a formative figure of the Sixties. Along with the Pill and the mini-skirt, his influence was truly liberating. "

" I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars. "

" I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted. "

" Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of. "

" In the old parts of Nice, the family tables are out in the cobbled streets so that you can't drive past. They insist you join them at midnight on a hot July evening. So that's just what you do, abandoning the car. "

" I have been on a diet since 1962. "

" The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it. "

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

" I love restaurants, and I love cooking. "

" I don't have birthdays. "

" One day, a new fabric appeared on the scene. PVC was shiny, waterproof, and unlike anything I'd ever seen before. "

" Risk it; go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks. "

" Many of my friends are chefs, and I learnt to cook watching them. "

" Of course, I remember when everybody was thin. It wasn't until I went to America in the Sixties that I saw anyone who wasn't skinny thin. "

" My favourite Nice restaurant is in the market. It's open mainly for the market people, and shuts in August. "

" People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.' "

" One thing I longed to do was to design a complete look, from head to toe, so I started a make-up line in 1966. "

" I didn't get fat even when I was pregnant. You have to work very hard at staying slim, and it's a bore. But it's worth it. "

" In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do. "

" I divide my time between all the mud and open space in Surrey and the social life and work in London, particularly Chelsea, which still has the same village feel that it had in the swinging Sixties. "

" I designed the miniskirt that caused so much havoc in the Sixties - the miniskirt that was such fun but has travelled well to today. "

" I'm greedy, but I've always watched what I eat because I want to look good. I gave up butter, cream and sugar years ago. "

" Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital. "

" I still like the King's Road. It is very alive; it is a hustle of things from different countries and so on. It is lovely. "