This idea of 'laicite' has been weaponized, in a way, to discriminate against people, and this idea of who gets to be French is really complicated and interesting.

Hailey Gates

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In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.

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If you take the fashion out of it, clothing has a lot of information - about how we feel about ourselves, how we'd like to feel about ourselves, and what we'd like to be: If you show up to an interview in sweatpants and a T-shirt, I'm going to deal with you in a really different way.

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The Internet seems to have killed American fashion in the sense that everybody has good style, but they also look vaguely the same.

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Some of us are lucky enough to choose what we wear, and some of us don't have that luxury, but we all are communicating something to the world around us by what we wear, no matter if it's sweatpants or a tuxedo.

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I would wear entirely one color: tutus, furry pants. It was totally outrageous. My family was deeply embarrassed to be seen with me.

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It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself.

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At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.

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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.

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In China, I had my body lit on fire. And in Russia, I took a bath in reindeer blood, which apparently had some kind of youth-enhancing elements.

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When I was young, I made all of my own clothes.

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I actually find it a lot easier to interview people I don't agree with because I'm far more curious about how they've arrived at that place.

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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.

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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.

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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.

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High fashion has become representative of stability in unstable places; that allows you to have a voice in the world stage.

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I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.

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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.

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Women's bodies have become a real battleground for politics.

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We did a play of 'Frog and Toad' at my elementary school. And I'm not sure if this is part of the book or it was something that we made up on our own, but I auditioned to play the black hole, which somehow makes sense to me.

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I was writing a lot even as a kid.

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