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" 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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" The fashion industry has a responsibility to represent a healthy image of women, but to start weighing them and putting them against a wall and making them feel like animals? No. "

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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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" I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become. "

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" Fashion is mysterious, as a rule. Why are blue jeans a classic? You just hit on something that happens to be timeless and right. "

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" As the president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, I represent the designers. And while we can by no means take the blame for eating disorders, we can play our part in addressing this important issue. "

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" If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants. "

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" I think all races are represented in America much more than in many other places, but it's also nice to remind people about that ethnic mix. I would like to see more black models and women from different ethnic backgrounds, but I also think that when you are casting, you just choose the most beautiful girl you can find. "

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" The most important relationship you have in life is the one you have with yourself. And then after that, I'd say once you have that, it may be hard work, but you can actually design your life. "

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

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" The wrap dress is the most traditional form of dressing: It's like a robe, it's like a kimono, it's like a toga. It doesn't have buttons or zippers. What made it different was that it was jersey; therefore, it was close to the body and it was a print. "

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" I wanted to be an empowered woman, and I became an empowered woman. And now I want to empower every woman. And I do it through my clothes, I do it through my words, I do it through my money, I do it through everything. "

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" I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman. "

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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. "

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" I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That's more important. "

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

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

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

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" The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising. "

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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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" 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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" Bali and the Aman resorts are all very luxurious, great places to go. "

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" Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing. "

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" My biggest vice is playing solitaire on my iPad. It's bad. I mean, it's ridiculous. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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" When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think of all the Chinese children who have nothing to eat.' But now, for my children, Chinese people make everything, and for my grandchildren, they buy everything. "

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