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" I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman. "

Diane von Furstenberg

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" I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are. "

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" I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it was really for her strength and courage more than her style, even though she had a lot of style. In a weird way, looking at pictures of me when I was 17 or 18, I was dressing the same way. I haven't changed very much. "

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" 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. "

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" What I think I sell with my clothes is confidence, so hopefully all my dresses, my accessories, are friends to the women. When you open the closet, and your eyes are swollen, and you don't like the way you look, you go to your friends. "

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" Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over. "

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" Italy will always have the best food. "

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" A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials. "

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" I was terrified the first time that I had a big problem in my business. I was obviously terrified when they diagnosed me with cancer in 1994. I was terrified when my son used to drive too fast. But I do believe in the fact that fear is not an option, so I always try to face it and not be afraid. "

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" Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections. "

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" I'm very good at breaking up with people. Very good. It requires a lot of skill, but what you do is you tell them the truth of why you are breaking up with them, and after that, you somehow compensate with other things. If you have loved someone, I think that somehow they should always be a part of your life. I really do. "

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" I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with. "

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" Fashion Week is so important for designers. "

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" Work and children I could have. But the husband was just too much. "

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

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" I was lucky enough to have it all. To be successful in business, to have children, to raise them on my own, and to travel and live my life. It was a lot of work, but it's a privilege to have been able to do it. "

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" 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. "

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" Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good. "

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" Everyone knows I married a prince, and then I married a billionaire. "

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" Fashion can be this mysterious thing that you can't explain. "

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

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" My best friend is me, and I take good care of me. "

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" Insecurity is a waste of time. "

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" 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. "

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

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" The most important thing is to be healthy, to drink a lot of water, to fight gravity as much as possible. I am one of the few people who decided I wasn't going to do any invasion with my face. "

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" 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. "

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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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" I used to be very insecure about my curly hair, because I lived in a country where everybody had blonde straight hair. "

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" I had good legs, and I loved showing them off. "

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" I obviously don't feel under pressure to look young, because I have had no Botox or surgery. I don't judge people who choose to have it, but I don't want to erase who I am. "

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