By Her Own Design Quotes

“For, to be able to see someone, to see them as a human being, to see them for what they can contribute in this world, to be a light, to be a force or an influence in someone else’s life, is all that we need.”
― Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register

“Girls need . . . well, they need a father figure at that age to show them . . . how a woman should be treated. Don’t you think so?”
― Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register

“A man’s treatment of his wife always showed up in his wife’s face, telling me what kind of dress was necessary: a dress to recapture or to keep his attention. This was a recapture job.”
― Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register

“Go on to the sink and clean this bowl and remember that a woman will always have a master. Always. We ain’t never get to be free. Difference between the bad times and now is that we gets to choose. We can say who we want our master to be.”
― Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register

“My mama was beautiful. Isn’t everyone’s mama beautiful?”
― Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register

“After weeping, he often fell into the sweetest dreams.”
― Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register

“It took one person. One lady with a good heart to see who I was and what I could do in this world.”
― Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register

“I may only have one eye now, but I see you too. And let me tell you. I appreciate that. It has been the honor of my life to be here among you and I thank you so very much.”
― Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register

“For all of my life, ever since I was a little girl, I thought what I wanted was to be at one of these lovely dinner dances. Well. Now that I'm here, It's been marvelous, but I know that the main thing about this is not the dinner and it's not the fashion show, it's that I know that you see me. You see what I've tried to do all of these years.”
― Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register

“The way she had seen me and treated me, was the way we should all see and treat one another. For to be able to see someone, to see them as a human being, to see them for what they can contribute in this world, to be a light, to be a force, or an influence in someone else's life, is all that we need.”
― Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register

“It has been many years since I let a man kiss me... When our lips met, parts of me that I had forgotten existed, thawed out from neglect and rose back to life like when Jesus was resurrected.”
― Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register