Quotes About Individuality

Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.

I, like most women, I dress for other women, I think. If I was going to dress for men, I think in general I would be just wearing, like, a fitted black T-shirt and tight jeans every day.

Men like me because I dont wear a brassiere. Women like me because I dont look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

Clothes aren't going to change the world, the women who wear them will

Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.

Our society can no longer tolerate ugliness. You see that in cars, sofas and women. [But] ugliness also has a right to exist.

Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?

Those that think my clothes are androgynous also still believe that women should look like Barbie dolls. That's precisely the problem, the deep-rooted assumptions about what is feminine.

You don't have to play masculine to be a strong woman.

You know, I'm a curvy woman and I just want to be comfortable with that.

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

Every woman has the right to be beautiful.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

The statement I wanted to make was that it makes no sense to put these real-life women into one limited template, so why then are we doing it to our fictitious heroines?

I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.

I wanted to create something that broke rules and made women feel confident and empowered.

If I can have any impact, I want women to feel good about themselves and have fun with fashion

I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.