Emily Spivack > Quotes

“Susan Orlean

I guess it's probably safer to be this way bout clothing than men or religion or something that could be really dangerous. I'm quite pragmatic about other choices in my life, but with clothing I'm a romantic - I abandon myself completely and the practical side get trumped. I become a zealot.”
― Emily Spivack, Worn Stories

“Doesn’t it just kill you? Can you imagine an eighteen year old girl coming back from the bus station to her room and seeing that the guy she loved had left his shirt for her? He knew. He just knew it, and it was beautiful.”
― Emily Spivack, Worn Stories

“My name sounded strained and ugly in his accent. He was giving me so much, and all I felt was the fatigue of trying to want it.”
― Emily Spivack, Worn Stories

“I had read another book, called Chromophobia, by David Batchelor, around this time, and he described how the modernist design aesthetic - the white kitchen, white floors, white walls - is a denial of our humanity. The reason bathrooms are white, too, is not only so you know that they are clean, but also so you know that they are not what's inside of us.”
― Emily Spivack

“Because I'd like to think I can still summon the total carpe diem, reckless abandon, bulletproof sense of invincibility that I once had wearing that shirt.”
― Emily Spivack, Worn Stories

“always write in the shirt because it makes me feel like I have a secret. When you write, it’s good to have a secret because in a way you do. You have to nurture the secret until other people know about it. Maybe wearing this shirt connects me with a part of my younger self that was incredibly emotional and vivid, and those feelings, combined with that sense of having a secret, is how I like to feel when I write.”
― Emily Spivack, Worn Stories

“Yael Meridan Schori

I'd grown up as a tomboy and had this "everything you can do, I can do better" kind of attitude.”
― Emily Spivack, Worn Stories