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.


Diane von Furstenberg

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
AMELIA EARHART
And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her...
AGNES SMEDLEY
An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
SALVADOR DALí
It's a sad woman who buys her own perfume
LENA JAEGER
The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-cla...
DORA RUSSELL
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
HENRY JAMES
I come from a strong woman who believed - and my father believed - that anything a man could do, a w...
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE
Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think...
MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ
The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.
NAOMI WOLF
If I could have half the career of Diane Sawyer, I'd be a happy woman.
MEGYN KELLY
An independent woman does not need a man who will spoil her with the finest jewels. All that she nee...
NIGUEL CROWIE
If you wanted to know shit about a woman, all you had to do was ask the woman who was pretending to ...
KARIN SLAUGHTER
I believe in Wonder Woman and the true spirit of Wonder Woman, and I wanted to tell that story. I di...
PATTY JENKINS
One was from a woman who said the check helped pay for medical care for her dog.
DEMA GUINN
My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.
CHARLAINE HARRIS
Now a small woman, with dangerous curves. I could bite into her.
NALINI SINGH
A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.
SOL WACHTLER
A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worth...
JOHN ELDREDGE
How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil?
A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all...
OSCAR WILDE
Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think I'm int...
MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ
Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who...
NTOZAKE SHANGE
I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting.
GIORGIO ARMANI
A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.
SUZY KASSEM
But I want to pay tribute to Anna Lee Woodruff, an extraordinary, selfless woman and beautiful grand...
JUDY WOODRUFF
I just couldn't sit through Harold and Maude one more time, ... Diane has really old tastes for a wo...
KEANU REEVES
Maybe it frightened them, to admit that a woman could be master of her fate.
NENIA CAMPBELL
That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who coul...
MINNA ANTRIM
I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and ...
URI GELLER
Some say that pregnancy make a woman an instant mother. To that I say, I became an instant woman the...
EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ
I want to be an independent woman who falls in love, finds a great partner for her lifetime, has kid...
JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT
A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
JAMES M. BARRIE
People like a woman who drinks her scotch straight. People like a woman who serves milk and cookies....
PEGGY UPCHURCH
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tel...
OSCAR WILDE
Sharon was chosen because of her worldwide appeal as a beautiful and desirable woman in her 40's, wh...
SHARON STONE
No man can resist a woman who has an apple in her hand. It's theological. A woman with an apple in h...
PIA PERA
He would give up his wings and heaven for her, a woman he loved but would never truly belong to him,...
J.L. SHEPPARD
A woman who is not successful in her own marriage has no advice to give to her younger generations
ESAN MAGAZINE
Nicki Minaj is a very strong woman who knows exactly what she wants. As an artist, I understand her,...
BEBE REXHA
I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted ...
MARKUS ZUSAK
Tammy Faye, I really like the woman. I wanted to be her kid.
JESSICA HAHN
When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a ...
MANDY HALE
He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her
MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS
Mystery is what makes women, woman. A woman without mystery is no woman. She is a girl who has yet d...
IMANIA MARGRIA
I am my own woman.
EVITA PERóN
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries...
ALPHONSE KARR
Don’t resent a woman for who she is not; love her for who she is.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
might be that marriage was not the death of a woman and the end of her true self, but the unfolding ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY
I wanted to be an empowered woman, and I became an empowered woman. And now I want to empower every ...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.
MARGARET SANGER
A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never...
THOMAS HARDY
I am a young Hispanic woman, so is Janet. I could empathize with her situation so much.
JENNIFER LOPEZ
Any woman who counts on her face is a fool.
ZADIE SMITH
I'm an independent woman and a feminist.
KRITI SANON
'Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
A woman is like a horse: He who can drive her is her master
NIGERIAN PROVERB
Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.
DONNA WOOLFOLK CROSS
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
BIBLE
I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a wo...
YVES SAINT LAURENT
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies
DAISY BATES
Instead of asking, 'What should a woman do—what is her role?' it would be far more helpful to ask,...
JOHN ELDREDGE
I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with peo...
JEFF BEZOS
I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
CALVIN KLEIN
The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her...
C. JOYBELL C.
Getting dressed for a woman is an art form, surreal, vaguely abstract, figurative and byzantine. Whe...
CHLOE THURLOW
That's who my mom is. She's a listener and a doer. She's a woman driven by compassion, b...
CHELSEA CLINTON
Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.
ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH
Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.
ALICE LONGWORTH
It might be that marriage was not the death of a woman and the end of her true self, but the unfoldi...
PHILIPPA GREGORY
I met a woman who went through a very difficult personal crisis, and she was really bed-ridden for a...
MAGGIE WHEELER
It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
W. C. FIELDS
A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let ...
BEVERLY SILLS
I never like to think that I design for a particular person. I design for the woman I wanted to be, ...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being,...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own...
WILKIE COLLINS
The question has been asked, 'What is a woman?' A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman is a ...
ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON
No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free...
MARGARET SANGER
No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself fr...
MARGARET SANGER
Who can find a virtuous woman?
For her price is far above rubies.
ANONYMOUS
We think we can convince a jury that a woman with her reputation, a woman who has done the things sh...
BILL ALEXANDER
A thoroughly beautiful woman and a thoroughly homely woman are creations which I love to gaze upon, ...
MARK TWAIN
The woman looked at her heart in all of its fragments. Its voice was clear and true as it reminded h...
ESTHER DALSENO
I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon.
JENIFER LEWIS
A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keepi...
EZRA TAFT BENSON
A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.
OLIN MILLER
A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings
OLIN MILLER
I realized I was an attractive older woman who never wanted to settle down.
CINDY GALLOP
I have always believed that the decision to have an abortion generally should be between a woman, he...
BILL CLINTON
Every woman should have a purse of her own.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
She only maintains that it is possible, under some circumstances, for a lady to murder her husband; ...
JUDITH MARTIN
A woman must have money and a room of her own
VIRGINIA WOOLF
To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what...
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON
A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm
EDGAR SALTUS
A woman who has no way of expressing herself and of realizing herself as a full human being has noth...
ENRIQUETA LONGAUEX-VASQUEZ
I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
SEX AND THE CITY
The best happiness a woman can boast is that of being most carefully deceived
GEORGE JAMES
The intensity of intention inside a woman’s mind to reign like a queen is so pronounced that she e...
ANUJ SOMANY
There's nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it lea...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger...
PARIS HILTON
I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and...
EMMA ROBERTS

More Diane von Furstenberg

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got marr...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
I'm very good at breaking up with people. Very good. It requires a lot of skill, but what you do...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
Life is a risk.
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
I am a traveler. I am a nomad. I rarely sleep in the same bed more than three or four nights. And I ...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designe...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a gi...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
I wanted to be an empowered woman, and I became an empowered woman. And now I want to empower every ...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
Simplicity and sexiness, that's what people want. At a price that's not outrageous.
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxur...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever yo...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you ne...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
The most important relationship you have in life is the one you have with yourself. And then after t...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
Attitude is everything.
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
The important thing is to take your time and not get stressed.
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
My best friend is me, and I take good care of me.
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressf...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections.
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
When you come to a hotel room, you want it to be grand, functional and beautiful. But you don't ...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
The wrap dress is the most traditional form of dressing: It's like a robe, it's like a kimon...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
All women are the same, really: They are strong, but they are afraid of their own strength.
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marr...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
I get ideas about what's essential when packing my suitcase.
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
Fashion is mysterious, as a rule. Why are blue jeans a classic? You just hit on something that happe...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
Insecurity is a waste of time.
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think o...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
I have always been attracted to clothes designed by women. Coco Chanel, Vionnet, Norma Kamali, Donna...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always tol...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
Bali and the Aman resorts are all very luxurious, great places to go.
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
Just don't go to a place where everything is too expensive... it'll put your husband in a ba...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I ...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
I think all races are represented in America much more than in many other places, but it's also ...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
I was terrified the first time that I had a big problem in my business. I was obviously terrified wh...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
I used to be very insecure about my curly hair, because I lived in a country where everybody had blo...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
I am a fast dresser, 30 minutes max with hair and makeup. I don't have a uniform, but I like to ...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
We need to encourage designers and agencies to be responsible. We need to make sure everyone is sens...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forc...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
As the president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, I represent the designers. And whil...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it&#...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
I never like to think that I design for a particular person. I design for the woman I wanted to be, ...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it w...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
I've always liked wrinkles. When I was a young girl, I used to make lines on my face with my nai...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
My clothes are great for a honeymoon: They're light and sexy, colorful and pretty, and not expen...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
Do I believe in reincarnation? Well, let's say that I believe in karma. I think you make your ow...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
If you like trekking, go to the Himalayas or Peru. I love those kinds of trips. But it all depends o...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
I'm all about empowering women. And by lining them up against the wall and weighing them, surely...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
The fashion industry has a responsibility to represent a healthy image of women, but to start weighi...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no ...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
My mother said that we're so lucky to be women. It's not that men are weak. Men are men. We&...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compro...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
The iPad! What is better designed than that? I read magazines on it, I play Scrabble. I use it for e...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
What I think I sell with my clothes is confidence, so hopefully all my dresses, my accessories, are ...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
Our contributions have increased each year. Many cancer patients have been touched by the program it...
DIANE VON GUNTEN
Some are the same, some are new, and the program they present always blows my mind.
DIANE VON GUNTEN
For Americans I'll always be Israeli, and for Israelis I'll always be American. But I really...
HANI FURSTENBERG
I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
HANI FURSTENBERG
When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wor...
HANI FURSTENBERG
I hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress.
HANI FURSTENBERG
Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.
DIANE SAWYER
Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.
DIANE ARBUS
I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.
DIANE ABBOTT
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
DIANE ACKERMAN
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a susta...
DIANE ARBUS
A lot of people give up, but you can't stop me. If you close the door, I'll just jump out th...
DIANE WARREN
I don't know about style. I know about my personal style.
DIANE KRUGER
Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains u...
DIANE ACKERMAN
I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my so...
DIANE WARREN
I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it fe...
DIANE WARREN
I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'
DIANE KRUGER
Whenever I tour my district and I ask small businesspeople 'what can I do to help?,' they te...
DIANE BLACK
I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express em...
DIANE KRUGER
In addition to being a nurse, I'm also a small business owner and I taught at a local community ...
DIANE BLACK
I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so ma...
DIANE ACKERMAN
When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark c...
DIANE ABBOTT
PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that cele...
DIANE WAKOSKI
Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we d...
DIANE ACKERMAN
Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergro...
DIANE ACKERMAN
The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
DIANE RAVITCH
Playing dead is difficult with a full bladder.
DIANE LANE
All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind...
DIANE SETTERFIELD
Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believ...
DIANE DUANE
With good reason, love's messengers, Eros and Kama, are armed with bows and long-distance arrows. No...
DIANE WOLKSTEIN
Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or to...
DIANE ACKERMAN
There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of...
DIANE ACKERMAN
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet con...
DIANE ACKERMAN
My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.
DIANE ARBUS
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
DIANE ARBUS
If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and ha...
DIANE ARBUS
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about...
DIANE ARBUS
It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lor...
DIANE ARBUS
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in bet...
DIANE ACKERMAN
There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands th...
DIANE ARBUS
After all, coffee is bitter, a flavor from the forbidden and dangerous realm.
DIANE ACKERMAN
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together...
DIANE ACKERMAN
I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to ha...
DIANE ACKERMAN
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
DIANE ACKERMAN
Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and t...
DIANE ARBUS
What do I want now? I want to be treated with the respect I deserve in the current VA system and not...
DIANE CHAMBERLAIN
It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and ...
DIANE SAWYER
The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
DIANE RAVITCH
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to h...
DIANE ACKERMAN
The devil is and always has been a gentleman.
DIANE LAVEY
People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.
DIANE SAWYER
Caregiver: that word should weigh more than others on a page, sag it down a bit and wrinkle it, beca...
DIANE ACKERMAN
Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejo...
DIANE ACKERMAN
But pecuniary interest is clearly not in your nature. How quaint. I have written about people who do...
DIANE SETTERFIELD
It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting it...
DIANE ACKERMAN
The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanit...
DIANE ACKERMAN
Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.
DIANE ACKERMAN
In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to ...
DIANE GARNICK
Chemotherapy is such a hard, hard kiss. Anything we can do to alleviate its side effects should be i...
DIANE LADD
I'm always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all...
DIANE PAULUS
We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different pl...
DIANE ACKERMAN
Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experien...
DIANE KEATON
I think they went with the idea that people know the story pretty much- knowing that he's going ...
DIANE KRUGER
I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like be...
DIANE KRUGER
Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitut...
DIANE WOOD
Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.
DIANE ACKERMAN
I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious bec...
DIANE KRUGER
All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail u...
DIANE ACKERMAN
We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutri...
DIANE ACKERMAN
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about ...
DIANE ARBUS
All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting...
DIANE LANE
As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, wor...
DIANE ACKERMAN
I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a tim...
DIANE KRUGER
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to acce...
DIANE SAWYER
I became pregnant by my first love at 17 and did what my parents thought was the right thing. I marr...
DIANE HENDRICKS
It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scotti...
DIANE KRUGER
Studies show that the IQ range of most creative people is surprisingly narrow, around 120 to 130. Hi...
DIANE ACKERMAN
Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency...
DIANE ACKERMAN
I think Charlize Theron is just as good when she is looking really pretty in a movie as when she gai...
DIANE KRUGER
I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my voca...
DIANE KRUGER
It's maybe hard to believe, but as a kid I really had a lot of self-doubts. My father was very i...
DIANE KRUGER
With just about every script, in almost every corner of the set, I was faced with the truth: This wa...
DIANE GUERRERO
Yeah, I know, the Mars thing. I've been meaning to talk to you about that. When did you get t...
DIANE DUANE
My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of...
DIANE ABBOTT
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society...
DIANE PAULUS
I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of s...
DIANE ARBUS
With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware ...
DIANE KRUGER
I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.
DIANE LANE
I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards t...
DIANE WAKOSKI
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with ...
DIANE ARBUS
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as cravi...
DIANE ARBUS
Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empath...
DIANE ACKERMAN
I'm a girl, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate greatness and the struggle of sport...
DIANE LANE
You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a...
DIANE ENGLISH
Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increas...
DIANE GARNICK
What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion ...
DIANE ACKERMAN
I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional s...
DIANE KRUGER
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet con...
DIANE ACKERMAN
For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see ...
DIANE ACKERMAN
I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty.
DIANE KRUGER
My old boyfriend, Warren Beatty, used to say I was a late developer,' she reflects. 'He was ...
DIANE KEATON
Every actor you learn from, take something from everyone - big actor or not. Whether they're big...
DIANE KRUGER
I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time ...
DIANE SETTERFIELD
It's always refreshing to step into another time.
DIANE LANE
...she knew, with all her heart that running away from the country’s top relationship coach was as...
DIANE HALL
Whose are all these ghosts?” she said, smiling at a flustered-looking Geraldine.
“Oh,” s...
DIANE HALL
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the m...
DIANE ARBUS
The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the worl...
DIANE WATSON
There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to thin...
DIANE WOOD
I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although...
DIANE WAKOSKI
I'm European, small, dainty - but I actually consider myself more of a tomboy.
DIANE KRUGER
Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing...
DIANE ABBOTT
I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of ...
DIANE KRUGER
I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship...
DIANE LANE
The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you...
DIANE ACKERMAN
Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about techn...
DIANE SAWYER
Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.
DIANE DUANE
At some point, one asks, "Toward what end is my life lived?" A great freedom comes from being able t...
DIANE ACKERMAN
Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that ...
DIANE SAWYER
I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my p...
DIANE KEATON
I've always loved scuba diving and the cell-tickling feel of being underwater, though it poses u...
DIANE ACKERMAN
I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony mission...
DIANE LADD
We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, espe...
DIANE WATSON
We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... no...
DIANE PAULUS
Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for 'Lord of the Rings' out of drama school....
DIANE KRUGER
The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs ...
DIANE WATSON
My personality just steps away, and I'm in direct connection when I'm on stage.
DIANE LADD
It is not 'seeing' the light that impacts one's life; it is never 'ceasing' to see the light that im...
DIANE LAHAIE
Two lousy choices is no better than seven lousy choices.
DIANE ARCHER
The biggest problem for most people is affording the health care they need, even with Medicare. Peop...
DIANE ARCHER
The biggest problem for most people is affording the health care they need, even with Medicare, ... ...
DIANE ARCHER
The first thing people need to know is that they do not have to make any changes if they are happy w...
DIANE ARCHER
We hear every kind of story.
DIANE ARCHER
[Yet many people have found the book difficult to understand.] We're hearing from a lot of people wh...
DIANE ARCHER
Shrove Tuesday marks the beginning of the Lenten journey in a celebratory way. We're on this 40-day ...
DIANE ARCHER
Lent is a time of prayer, but not for gloomy faces. Some people choose to give things up, but that's...
DIANE ARCHER
We definitely tell them it's an option, and it can be a lower-cost option than Part D.
DIANE ARCHER
[Some callers] aren't paying their electric (bill) in order to get their medicine, ... aren't gettin...
DIANE ARCHER
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
DIANE ARBUS
You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
DIANE ARBUS
The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
DIANE ARBUS
The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.
DIANE ARBUS
These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.
DIANE ARBUS