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“When did you last have fun being dignified?”
“In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.”
“Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.”
“I have a beautiful Hellenistic gold and garnet ring - it's more than 2,200 years old, but it looks very modern.”
“The modern world is a meritocracy where you earn your own luck, old school ties count for nothing, and inherited privilege can even lose a guy a clear parliamentary majority.”
“By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.”
“I have a career I love more than I can tell you, and I have it because I work incredibly hard pretty much every single day.”
“The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.”
“Anything looks good if you've got the body of a Victoria's Secret model and the porelessly smooth skin-tone of a piece of glass.”
“Posh is a way of living that can often be quite miserly and not about money.”
“Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.”
“There's a difference between being posh and being rich.”
“Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.”
“A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.”
“Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.”
“I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.”
“The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.”
“There's no snobbery or resentment from serious polo people towards those who just come for the party.”