Edie Sedgwick

"Fashion as a whole is a farce, completely. The people behind it are perverted, the styles are created by freaked out people, just natural weirdos. I know this because I worked with all those people while I was modeling."

"I came to New York to see what I could see — thats from a childrens book, isnt it? — and to find the living part."

"I act this way because thats the way I feel like acting. If people like it, fine. If they dont, thats their problem."

"I made a mask out of my face because I didnt realize I was quite beautiful. God blessed me so. I practically destroyed it. I had to wear heavy black eyelashes like bat wings, and dark lines under my eyes, and cut all my hair off, my long dark hair. Cut it off and strip it silver and blonde. All those little maneuvers I did out of things that were happening in my life that upset me."

"Everything that happened to me has been a paradox for life. The very things that I should have done would have been the trap. The very things I might have given into, that demanded, that said, this is your life. I mean, this is your only way to survive, are the things I found hardest to end. Cause I believed in something else. You have to work like mad to make people understand... Even if I dont make it, you know, I really insist on believing, and then I fall off the edge because theres nobody else to follow it. And I would just fall off the edge."

"Edie saw herself as tough like a little tomboy."