Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.

Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.

I do things like hem a pair of pants, I do my own tailoring but I wouldn't attempt a jacket.

And I'm the first one to tell people to break the rules. But you can only break the rules once you know what the rules are. The other thing is, fashion is the last design discipline to actually have academic texts and historical analysis.

I have to have my coffee. I probably have three cups a day, but only before noon.

I love the history of the sport, I love the culture that surrounds it, and I never dreamed I'd become a fanatic. I'm such a fanatic now that I'm committed to competing.

On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.