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" Marriage was never a destination with me. "

Diane von Furstenberg

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" 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. "

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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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" The important thing is to take your time and not get stressed. "

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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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" 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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" 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 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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" I loved the seventies. "

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" All women are the same, really: They are strong, but they are afraid of their own strength. "

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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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" 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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" The iPad! What is better designed than that? I read magazines on it, I play Scrabble. I use it for everything. "

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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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" I am almost a vegetarian, and I meditate, do yoga and love to hike. "

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

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

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

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" I've been working seriously in giving fashion a place that it deserves. "

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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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" 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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" All I can tell you is that I've never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don't let it out. Then there's a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the tragedy. "

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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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" 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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" 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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