Audrey Tautou Quotes

I've been inspired by Coco Chanel. She broke all the rules of her time when she was designing. She pretty much revolutionized the way that women dressed at the time, and in doing that, she modernized the way they looked because they could move more freely in their clothes.

Chanel took women out of corsets and put them into the 'simple little black dress,' the perfectly tailored suit, the bell-bottom sailor pants, and jersey tops.

Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies-they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.

I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.

There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.

I'm a girl's girl. I'm a woman's woman. I'm a cool girl.

Women are women, and hurray for that.

I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.

We try to do too many things that used to be in the men's domain, and we try to do them like men's. I'm a prude - I guess you can tell that - but I think, 'Why would you do that?'

I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!

If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: "I want something more than my husband and my children and my home ...." And work can now be seen as the key to the problem that has no name.

The greatest achievement for a woman is to be as seldom as possible spoken of.

Abortion – Yes! But that is just the beginning…. My uterus is mine and it is up to me to look after it.

A lot of stuff I was reading in mythology was about how women used to be taught to be wild. The wild woman was an essence that existed in the world. We're still coming back from many years of us being chiseled out to be identical and quiet.

There was never a moment when I was like, 'I'm going to enter the public conversation on the importance of female nudity.'

I wanted women wearing my sweaters to give the impression they were naked. The aim wasn't to impose outfits but to stay as close as possible to women's bodies and their freedom of movement.

I think, with my own daughters, rather than preaching a feminine agenda, I just really try to help them understand what it meant to be a woman in the late 20th century and the consciousness of how to be a woman in the 21st century: What is working for you and what is working against you.

I'm about women's empowerment. I'm about agency. I'm about being in control of your narrative and your body.

You know me, I'm all about the girl power, girl things.

If feminism was a dress, it would be that essential little black number, reached for in times of need; different for everyone but a steady constant in a woman's life. Outspoken or understated, demure or provocative, worn to reflect the mood, the personality, the time.

I didn't have any idea that Gwen Stefani would evolve into this symbol of womanhood in America, but to me, that's not a musical story: it's a fashion story.

I can't just go out in a T-Shirt and say, 'Hey, today I'm not wearing a bra.'

Some people feel like women should dress in a way that doesn't promote attention-seeking. But this is just my body. My body in itself isn't only sexual.

There are so many pressures that are put upon young women. Whatever we can do to alleviate that and help women feel beautiful about who we are inside, which is the only beauty there truly is, is so nice. Let's get down and dirty. Let's be a real girl.