Diane von Furstenberg Quotes

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.

Art helped give me confidence.

Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through writing, drama or art is so important in giving young people a sense of self-worth.

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

I invented myself.

When the work you're doing every single day is so directly about who you are as an individual and who you are as a person, it can be both exhausting and empowering in different moments.

'Meenaxi' was a lesson in liberation. It taught me to be a free spirit and understand the pleasure of my work by being different people, just like Meenaxi is.

I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be and to some degree, the woman I'm still a little piece of.

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

I've kind of stepped into my femininity.