. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.
Source: In The Wit & Wisdom of Women, by Running Press, 1993.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt, (Feb 20 1924-2019), US designer, poet; Her Gloria Vanderbilt jeans influenced the designer jeans craze, 1980s