1

"Attitude is everything."

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2

"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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3

"Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good."

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4

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

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5

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

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6

"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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7

"I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman."

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8

"I had good legs, and I loved showing them off."

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9

"My best friend is me, and I take good care of me."

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10

"I don't like to talk about my dreams. I like to make them happen. I prefer to talk about them when they're done."

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11

"Beauty is perfect in its imperfections. So you just have to go with the imperfections."

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12

"I was 26 when I invented the wrap dress. It was just a nothing little printed dress made out of a jersey, and before I know it, I lived an American Dream making more than 25,000 dresses a week."

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13

"I design for the woman who loves being a woman."

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14

"The most important relationship in your life is with yourself. Because no matter what happens you will always be yourself."

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"I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay her bill, a woman who could run her own life—and I became that woman."

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16

"I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are."

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17

"My favorite days are the ones where I deal only with my own team, design, marketing, working on the next accessories collection."

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18

"I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be."

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19

"The idea of being able to go into Studio 54 alone is what thrilled me the most: again, a man's life in a woman's body."

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20

"I was lucky because I got so successful so early, and when you get successful early, then you can afford to be a little bit humble."

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