Diane von Furstenberg Quotations | Page 3

Be the Woman You Want to Be....

Generosity is the best investment.

All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.

It's the woman you should remember, not the dress, ever.

If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.

I don't care about fashion, I care about women

As the president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, I represent the designers. And while we can by no means take the blame for eating disorders, we can play our part in addressing this important issue.

Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it's an animal or the layout of bark or of a leaf. Sometimes my patterns are very bold, and you can barely see where they come from, but all the textures and all the prints come out of nature.

If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.

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.