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" When I first started designing, all women were dressed like men, and I said, 'Hey, guys, let's be women, put the two together - it's not either/or. Let's celebrate our bodies. Our bodies are different.' "

Donna Karan

Dressed

Celebrate

Together

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" Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child. "

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" I feel very strongly about dresses on every level - a dress feels like underpinning. "

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Dress

Feels

" I'm really quite simple. "

" It used to be only yoga, but now I do Pilates as well; I feel like I need the balance. "

" Women should always take care of themselves first. It makes you more equipped to take care of others. "

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" Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way. "

" It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion. "

" If I weren't doing what I'm doing today... I'd be traveling around the world on the back of a motorcycle. "

" I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, Pilates or meditation. "

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" Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near. "

Donna Karan

Numbers

Near

" I'm a nature bug. "

Donna Karan

Bug

Nature

" When I started Donna Karan, people weren't really accepting the idea of the working woman. "

" Originally, back in 1992, DKNY started because I couldn't find a pair of jeans. I also wanted to dress my teenage daughter Gabby. So it was the perfect street wardrobe: jeans, anoraks, jumpsuits, boyfriend jackets, sweaters, skirts and dresses. Then DKNY grew into an entire lifestyle concept, including tailored clothes you wear to work. "

" You don't have that much choice in your life, which is one of the big lessons I've learned. I was going to be a designer whether I wanted to be a designer or not. "

" I wouldn't be who I am without my husband, who handled the business end of Donna Karan so I could be creative. "

" I really feel that we need to scale back and get to what is important on so many levels. "

" Scheduling me is not easy, as most people know, because once I start, I don't stop. "

" My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a job I loved. I now think guilt is a universal part of being a mother. I used to think it was Jewish-mother guilt but now I think it is working-mother guilt. "

" I'm truly, truly boring! I don't change. If people know me, I have not changed. "

" I truly believe that philanthropy and commerce can work together. "

" My mother was a working woman, and I was alone a lot. So I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom. "