Carine Roitfeld Quotes

Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity.

Women are so much more beautiful when they have shape.

I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful decolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.

I did an episode on my talk show on cellulite, and I brought seven women into a dressing room at Nordstrom's in L.A., and we all sat and talked about our cellulite.

Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.

When you're a big girl like me, you want someone who makes you feel diminutive. I think fat guys are sexy.

Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like.

As a woman, we all want to feel attractive. We all want to feel that we're making the very best of ourselves so we can accept ourselves.

I love curvy women. Maybe because I'm not. I would love to be a Marilyn Monroe, but I'm very far away from that... So I love very curvy girls.

I am interested in all things that celebrate and enhance the female form.

Every girl likes feeling hot and sexy and beautiful and likes hearing it.

I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying.

I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

I did an internship with Dove when they were doing the 'real beauty' campaign, and I was really inspired by that. Growing up in L.A., being a young woman, and seeing how the media tells young women to be everything you're not, I kind of wrote about that experience.

You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.

When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.

I love my curves.

I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.

I just want women to feel beautiful.

I'm so glad teenagers can look up to young girls and realize it's okay to be voluptuous.

One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.

I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.

It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but I hated them and couldn't wait for them to grow back. Now I embrace them. I realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful.

I definitely have curves. I don't intend on losing them.