I never wanted to join fashion industry or being another Donna or another Dianne. I made clothes that I wanted to wear. I would cut, I would sew and I would wear, and it made me to feel better.
BETSEY JOHNSONA good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.
More Betsey Johnson Quotes
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[In the 1960s]…you could take LSD but you couldn’t wear a pantsuit.
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I was a cheerleader for nine years.
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I don’t like to have time on my wall; it’s too-in-your-face.
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You have to hold onto your fantasy.
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Just to see what a pink dress can mean to a woman, any woman, but a disabled woman, that’s extra special and thrilling because they shouldn’t be separated and their disabilities don’t have to separate them in anyway.
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If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and her boyfriend likes the way she looks, she’ll come back.
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With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.
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It’s just been so heartwarming to see my clothes on people in wheelchairs and people needing physical support.
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Keep your sunny side up, keep yourself beautiful, and indulge yourself!
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Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they’d just walk around naked at all times.
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I never keep anything beautiful in the closet.
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I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.
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If it hadn’t been for the rise of the working woman’s wardrobe, I never would have found the time to sneak a kid in.
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Hard times always lead to something great.
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I couldn’t live if I wasn’t a designer.
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