Erin McKean Quotes.

1. "You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’."
- Quote by Erin McKean

2. "People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real."
- Quote by Erin McKean

3. "if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi"
- Erin McKean, The Secret Lives of Dresses

4. "Singing is probably the better medicine than half the stuff they sell in pill bottles, and it’s cheaper, too."
- Erin McKean, The Secret Lives of Dresses

5. "Experiences is just paying attention as time passes."
- Erin McKean, The Secret Lives of Dresses

6. "Singing when no one else is around is always good. I especially like belters. Good, loud singing is probably better medicine than half the stuff they sell in pill bottles, and it's cheaper, too. I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feel of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you."
- Erin McKean, The Secret Lives of Dresses

7. "The rule is, don't speak of the dead, not don't speak ill of the dead's terrible relatives."
- Erin McKean, The Secret Lives of Dresses

8. "It doesn’t really matter [if she ever wears the dress], as long as she loves it. She’ll wear it a hundred times in her imagination before she even tries it on again. As long as she has the option of wearing it, she’ll be happy."
- Erin McKean, The Secret Lives of Dresses

9. "This isn’t a thrift store… We’re not selling them something less expensive, we’re selling them something more special. We have to tell them the story of what we’re showing them. And then we have to show them how they can be the new heroine in the story."
- Erin McKean, The Secret Lives of Dresses

10. "sometimes, it seems to me that, the smaller the things is that people want, the bigger the disappointment when they don't get it, or it's not exactly right -dora"
- Erin McKean, The Secret Lives of Dresses