“Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structure.”

“Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?”

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

“What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.”

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

“Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.”

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”

“There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night”

“It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.”

“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”