Section: Quotations
Subsection: Furs & Leather
Last revision: December 25, 2005
Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story. -- Mary Tyler Moore
We don't live the lives of Eskimos. We don't need to kill animals for fashion. -- Charlize Theron
I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing. -- Martina Navratilova
It's sad. That's a living creature. We don't have the right to take their life away for fashion. -- Carmen Electra
Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she's truly beautiful. -- Doris Day
Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs. -- Rue McClanahan
Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me... her leg had probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it. -- Bea Arthur
The 1950's American dream of owning a mink coat is as dead as the 60 mink killed to make that coat. -- Trish Donnally
I admit to having worn suede and leather pants myself for a while, but you just never feel clean, and it's degenerate, anyway, to wear animal skins.... So I went back to bluejeans after my degenerate period. -- Andy Warhol
The person I love would never wear fur. Fur just makes me think of shallow women who have no conscience. The fur industry belongs to a time when people were selfish beyond belief. -- Gavin Rossdale
The skin of a python is no less precious to the snake than fur is to the fox. -- Maneka Ghandhi