Diane von Furstenberg Quotes

In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against which to contrast them. Of late I have done some systematic reading of ladies papers. The plain girl submits to a course of "treatment." In eighteen months she bursts upon Society an acknowledged beauty.

I was lucky not to have been born pretty.

I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.

The main criticism that I get is, 'Aren't you just conforming to a patriarchal standard of beauty?' Well, this is just the body I was given. I didn't do anything to it - it's just my body. But even if I had altered it, that would be fine, too.

Being a woman, I want to look pretty in every phase of my life.

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.

It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.

I know I'm not a woman's fantasy man; I don't have to uphold this image of male beauty, so that's kind of a relief in a way.

I think there is something lovely when a woman looks well.

For girls growing up, sometimes I think they get the wrong idea for what women should look like.

With women, the way they look... it's the core of their self-esteem.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

I wonder if it is harder for a woman who was beautiful to get older or a woman who was never looked at.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.

Do we have to be rail thin to possess 'outer beauty' and sex appeal and to be capable of attracting lovers?

Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.

I've always been given respect because I'm kind of mannish, and I'm not a great beauty. I've never played the coquette card because I'm no good at it.

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.

I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.

Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at human folly reveals that good looks and worthiness operate independently. Yet countless socializing forces, from Aunt Clara to the latest perfume ad, reinforce beliefs like 'If I were pretty enough, I would be loved.'

Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman's body is very beautiful.

I don't go out without make up. I'm a woman, you know.