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" Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing. "

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" The older I get, the more impressed I am with women. I have yet to meet a woman who is not strong. They don't exist. "

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I Am

Women

" My mother never, ever told me about evilness. She only saw the beautiful things... she wanted to protect me from it. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Never

Mother

Beautiful

" When you come to a hotel room, you want it to be grand, functional and beautiful. But you don't want things that are not useful. Sometimes you go to hotels and there are all these frames and pictures of people you don't know, and you end up hiding everything in the drawer, and then housekeeping come and put it out again. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Know

People

Hotel

" I was lucky because I got so successful so early, and when you get successful early, then you can afford to be a little bit humble. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Early

Lucky

You

" Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Ireland

Also

Amsterdam

" We need to encourage designers and agencies to be responsible. We need to make sure everyone is sensitive to the issues. But to calculate the girls' body mass - I personally think it is demeaning. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Responsible

Think

Everyone

" Women inspire me... so I enjoy women's stories and biographies. I am interested in all women. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Enjoy

I Am

" I design for the woman who loves being a woman. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Being

Loves

Who

" I used the aspects of being a woman to my advantage, but I worked for myself, not a big corporation, so I was lucky to have the freedom to behave however I liked. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Used

Big

Freedom

" The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian. "

Diane von Furstenberg

English

Italian

Look

" I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Via

Receive

E-Mail

" Do I believe in reincarnation? Well, let's say that I believe in karma. I think you make your own karma. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Say

You

Think

" Simplicity and sexiness, that's what people want. At a price that's not outrageous. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Price

Simplicity

Want

" I gave up on my looks a long time ago. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Long Time

Long

Time

" I don't think we should always look at the Chinese like they're taking jobs. They are also bring us more and more jobs. Because, they are the biggest growing consumer. I think what is going on in China is exciting. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Always

Growing

" I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Feel

America

World

" What's important to me is to share, and being inspired, and inspiring. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Being

Important

" Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a bad mood. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Bad Mood

Husband

" My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France. "

Diane von Furstenberg

France

South

Cap

" I am a fast dresser, 30 minutes max with hair and makeup. I don't have a uniform, but I like to be comfortable. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Makeup

Uniform

Fast

" You need, in your closet, clothes that will - that you can use in many different ways. Clothes that make you fell comfortable, clothes that make you feel 'you.' "

Diane von Furstenberg

Clothes

Need

You

" I believe that all women should have children. I think women are made to have children and to be mothers. I also think women have to have an identity outside the home. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Identity

Women

Think

" I've always been inspired by women, and my mission was to inspire women. I always wanted to become a certain kind of woman, and I became that woman through fashion. It was a dialogue. I would see that the wrap dress made those women confident, and made them act with confidence. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Confidence

Dress

Inspire

" I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the dark, she would lock me in the closet. Things like this. And she would talk about the time she spent in the concentration camp, but not about being afraid, only about the good side of it. "

Diane von Furstenberg

I Am

Good

" I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Party

Excuses

Birthday

" I can honestly say that I understand women very well. If you understand yourself, you understand women, because, in the end, all women are the same. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Yourself

End

I Can

" When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Door

You

Luxury

" Women are strong. We can do it all. But not always at the same time. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Always

Same

Strong

" Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it's an animal or the layout of bark or of a leaf. Sometimes my patterns are very bold, and you can barely see where they come from, but all the textures and all the prints come out of nature. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Leaf

Nature

You

" The way I design generally is very much travel-oriented because that is my life. That's why I make clothes that are so light and so easy to pack and a little bit seasonless. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Light

My Life

Clothes