Vera Wang Quotes

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

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

Art helped give me confidence.

I just want to inspire my fans to be whoever they want to be, because that's what I've always done.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.

Be whatever you want to be.

When my divorce came through, it was like being let out of a cage because I hadn't been true to myself before; I was being something that was expected of me.

So, tomorrow, I’m leaving. And I’m not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. And I’m going to figure out what that is.

I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

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

My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

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.

I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.