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" I saw no reason why childhood shouldn't last forever. So I created clothes that worked and moved and allowed people to run, to jump, to leap, to retain their precious freedom. "

Mary Quant

Clothes

Run

People

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Fun

" I have been on a diet since 1962. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more. "

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Sense

Having

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

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Country

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

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You

Risks

" The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1950s and sort of faded a bit when it became muddled with flower power. It was marvelous. "

" 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 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. "

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

" The fashionable woman is sexy, witty, and dry-cleaned. "

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

" London style is individual. "

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

" Vidal Sassoon changed hair forever. "

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

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

" As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison. "

" My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning. "

" Eating outdoors is a particular passion - that is, eating trestle-table a la nicoise. "

" I have an awful lot of energy. "

" I think to myself, 'You lucky woman - how did you have all this fun?' "

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

Mary Quant

Age

Way

" I love restaurants, and I love cooking. "