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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. "
Diane von Furstenberg
Identity
Women
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" I am a traveler. I am a nomad. I rarely sleep in the same bed more than three or four nights. And I know hotel life better than anyone. "
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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. "
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" There are emerging countries. I mean, there are countries, you know, China, India, and Brazil, and all of these countries that are emerging. They are building homes. They are building - so there is a new lifestyle. "
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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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" There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering! "
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" Everyone knows I married a prince, and then I married a billionaire. "
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" Bali and the Aman resorts are all very luxurious, great places to go. "
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" Simplicity and sexiness, that's what people want. At a price that's not outrageous. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" What's important to me is to share, and being inspired, and inspiring. "
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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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" 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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" Do I believe in reincarnation? Well, let's say that I believe in karma. I think you make your own karma. "
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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 gave up on my looks a long time ago. "
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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 a very young girl and I got into fashion very much by accident, wanting to be independent. What was wonderful was that while I was learning and discovering - learning about the work, discovering myself as a woman - I was allowing other women to feel the same way. "
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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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" Marriage was never a destination with me. "
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" I loved the seventies. "
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" Insecurity is a waste of time. "
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" 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. "
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" I never like to think that I design for a particular person. I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be, and - to some degree - the woman I'm still a little piece of. "
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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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