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I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop, and so I've always had people buying them. I could always sell a few, even if I couldn't sell a lot, and somehow my business grew because people happened to like it. I'm in a fortunate position.

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Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

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I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

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I disagree with everything I used to say.

From Vivienne Westwood

I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.

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I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest.

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I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

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The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

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I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.

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But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

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