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" It's important to keep on keeping on, to feel good about yourself and be happy with who you are. "
Sonia Rykiel
Happy
Yourself
You
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" As soon as I am up, I brush my hair. I eat breakfast first: tea and brown bread, and sometimes a fresh fruit juice like orange or grapefruit. I write notes on the previous day in my notebook, then I shower. "
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" The Rykiel woman? She doesn't have time to stop time. She's too busy running. In her hands she's carrying a tote, a baby, a book, a camera. "
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" Since I didn't know anything, I did everything I wanted. "
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" My only ambition was to have 10 children. Fashion was an accident. "
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" I hate the word 'feminine!' I mean, there is a woman and a man, and when I say 'woman,' it suggests all that is radiant, tender, fascinating, gentle, demoniac, exaggerated! 'Feminine' makes me think of somebody who is spindly and over-sweet - I don't like that! "
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" Like Picasso, I go through blue periods, green periods, or grey periods. "
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" I love chocolate. Black chocolate with marshmallow inside, caramel inside. If I could only have two foods, I'd take some fantastic chocolate. And some terrible chocolate. I love the Clark Bar. "
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" It is interesting to see what other designers do, and not work in a vacuum. "
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" I want women to learn to find themselves. "
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" Everyone knows that life is very expensive and you can change, you can turn, you can play with clothes with a lot of accessories. "
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" Women should look at themselves and decide for themselves what color or length they should wear. "
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" The pill was the liberation of the spirit of women. "
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" We are working women. Also, we have the problem of children, of men, to take care of our houses, so many things. I try to explain that in my clothes. They are clothes for everyday life. That is the real life of woman. "
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" A woman who walks well parts crowds - it's something we should all be taught to do. "
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" Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead. "
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" A dress will never make a woman sexy, fatale, magnificent, mysterious. It's a way of walking, of standing, or existing, the way you give your hand or your regard. That's what makes the dress. "
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" Women often stop me in the street. "
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" I'm not brave, I'm not fantastic. I'm like any other woman. I'm unhappy. I'm difficult. I'm sad. Am I strong, too? Maybe, but not always. There are days when I don't want to see anyone. The most important thing you learn? You can live with it. "
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" A man is attractive when he is slightly disturbing like a woman, a woman when she's a little disturbing like a man. "
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" My view is that you have to deal with who you are. It's hard work, in a way, but somebody has to do it. "
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" My fashion has no time, no season. It doesn't go out of style. If someone decides that clothes can go out of fashion, then you are deciding a woman can go out of fashion. "
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" I came from an intellectual Parisian family. My father was a watchmaker; my mother was a housewife. We discussed politics, art, sculpture - never fashion. "
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" I didn't listen to anyone. I was so violent, so authoritarian, only listening to what I wanted and myself. "
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" The lead of a film that wove around me, I played all the roles. I traveled the world; I loved life, pleasure. I adored to write, create. "
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" Everything I do is really an expression of myself, through colors and shapes and, at the same time, I try to explain what I feel not only as a creator but also as a woman. I cannot separate one from the other. "
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" I became the world's queen of sweaters without even knowing how one was made. "
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" What pushes me forward is everything I have learned: political, social, cultural. I put all that into the clothes. "
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" I have no regrets in life, and you know what? If I could, I'd go back and do it all again. "
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" French women famously take care over their appearance, but this wasn't instilled in me as I grew up. I was taught that beauty comes from different places, from the inside and from the outside. "
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