"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."

"Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs."

"Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants."

"Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor."

"I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down."

"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."

"A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes."

"All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds."