Sew Quotes

About her mother: "All I ever wanted was a mother who paid attention to me. She didn`t want girls. She thought we were trouble. She didn`t help with homework or teach me to sew or cook. She didn`t go to the school plays I was in or go to my high school graduation. When I started menstruating at 13, I thought I was dying because she never taught me anything about that." (LA Times 3-11-06)

I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.

You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can`t be fat and healthy.

I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew.

We are seeing a lot of people who don`t know how to sew are starting to learn.

I`ve never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn`t sew, I could think.

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.