Karen Finerman Quotes

When it comes to luggage, I am an underpacker.

Even when I was modelling, I never had a mom sitting on my head and a bunch of people waiting on me. I've always been independent. I'll do my thing and go.

Though I'm a fashion designer, I never stuff my luggage with too many items.

I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting intuition guide my way.

Astride a horse I am not, nor camel-like carry a load, Subjects I have none, nor follow any sultan's code; I worry not for what exists, nor fret for what is lost, I breathe with extreme ease, and live at very little cost.

When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!

If I'm on holiday, I travel light, but if it is a work trip, I take everything but the kitchen sink.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.

I'd gladly do without a valet. I'm never so well treated as when I'm without a valet.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

I don't need adult supervision.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

I think boarding school does give you an independence.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Grown men do not need leaders.

I don't need anyone else, which is a great feeling, but also a depressing one.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.