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" People are going to figure out that I don't know anything. I always thought I'd be discredited in the end. "
Sonia Rykiel
End
Thought
Always
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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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" My color is black. And black, if it's worn right, is a scandal. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" The natures of men and women are very mixed, and for me, the most fascinating type of woman is the one who is a little masculine, has a little of the man in her, and the sort of man who is fabulous is the one who is a little woman, too. It's impossible not to mix them! "
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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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" A woman and a dress, very often, fight against each other because they are not at the same place. Sometimes you see the woman moving the belt around. She is making the robe her own. She needs that. Otherwise, the dress doesn't exist. "
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" You can have a conversation with your eyes. "
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" I have the impression that the women around me are like me - smaller, taller, fatter, thinner - but in fact, we are all the same. "
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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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" 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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" I don't read e-mails because I hate them. "
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" I don't know why some women don't wear make-up. Every woman should gild the lily. "
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" I have never followed fashion. What is fashion to me? I just think of things that inspire me, that inspire women, and I design that way. "
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" Women should look at themselves and decide for themselves what color or length they should wear. "
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" I am a perfectionist. It has always been this way. "
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" When I started in fashion, for the first 10 years, I said to myself every day, 'I'm going to quit tomorrow.' "
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" My only ambition was to have 10 children. Fashion was an accident. "
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" I never played a part in the feminist movement - it touches me, but I am not a militant. "
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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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" My favourite feature is my hair. It has always made me look different. It was so red when I was born that my mother thought I had blood on my head. When I was a teenager, I looked like a tomboy, but then I understood that I could be a woman who was an intelligent mix between a lady and my mannish side. "
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" How can you live the high life if you do not wear high heels? I don't understand why women wear these ballet pumps. They are only good if you walk like a ballet dancer, and only ballet dancers do that. "
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