„Or maybe she decided that an evening with your old tutor would be blisteringly dull and opted for the more exhilarating course of washing her hair instead. Dear me, I know what I would have done. It’s only lack of hair that forces me to pursue such a hectic social round these days.“

— Douglas Adams
„It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next.It made me tired just to think of it.“
— Sylvia Plath
„To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.“
— Henry Miller
„I know I've reached the stage where other artists would bleach their hair or buy a fancy costume, but, inexcusably, I can only be me, which is a full-time occupation and causes terrible backaches.“
— Morrissey
„Meg's high-heeled slippers were dreadfully tight, and hurt her, though she would not own it; and Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable; but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.“
— Louisa May Alcott