Summer Rayne Oakes quotes

“A beautifully-designed coat that drapes magnificently on the female form.”
-- Summer Rayne Oakes

#Female Quotes

“I really love working with brands that are either at the cutting-edge, or are making that first step towards making change within their brand lines.”
-- Summer Rayne Oakes

#Making Changes Quotes

“Movements are powerful forces of human nature. But fashion has never been egalitarian. There needs to be a balance between aspiration and accessibility, curation and community.”
-- Summer Rayne Oakes

#Fashion Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Community Quotes

“Companies doing "business as usual" have to get baseline data on their impact and simultaneously understand what the impacts are. The larger the company, the more challenging that can be - so I empathize with the arduousness of the process. But it can be an exciting and rewarding challenge for all those involved, particularly when you can show progress.”
-- Summer Rayne Oakes

#Challenges Quotes #Progress Quotes #Exciting Quotes

“I'm a targeted shopper - so if I'm looking for a pillbox hat - I'll search for that and go from "highest price" to "lowest price." The more expensive stuff is most often the most precious - and will often retain its value if I ever consider reselling.”
-- Summer Rayne Oakes

#Lowest Quotes #Values Quotes

“People are gonna look up to me because I'm young, black, and female.”

“Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.”

“When you get a little older, you'll see how easy it is to become lured by the female of the species.”

“Wiles and deceit are female qualities.”

“In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.”

Source : Al Roker (2000). “Don't Make Me Stop this Car!: Adventures in Fatherhood”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

“Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.”

“Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.”

“LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males.”

“FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.”

“I have been carrying on a dialogue between the landscape and the female body (based on my own silhouette) I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb (nature). Through my earth/body sculptures I become one with the earth I become an extension of nature and nature becomes an extension of my body”

Source : Ana Mendieta, Gloria Moure, Donald Burton Kuspit (1997). “Ana Mendieta”