When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of self-love and companionship with oneself for a simpler and more fulfilling life.
Diane Von Furstenberg highlights the transformative power of self-acceptance and friendship with oneself. When a woman learns to appreciate and support herself like a true friend, she can navigate life's challenges more easily, leading to greater happiness and resilience.
In practice
During a women's empowerment seminar, this quote could inspire attendees to prioritize self-care.
There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!
The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.
One of the most important things about fashion is to dress as well as you can, look as attractive as you can, and at the same time be comfortable with yourself. Be easy about your clothes; forget about them.
All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.
You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.
The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
He who does not travel, who does not read, _x000D_ who does not listen to music, _x000D_ who does not find grace in himself, _x000D_ she who does not find grace in herself, _x000D_ dies slowly.
Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.
When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
we drove on and on, past little villages and both good things and bad things were happening to the people in those villages too, but I still was nothing but arms and ears and eyes and maybe there'd be either some good luck for me or more death tomorrow.
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