You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.
Christian DiorRead
Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that women's beauty and happiness are intertwined, and that the intention behind beauty is to enhance their happiness.
Christian Dior expresses the idea that true beauty goes beyond mere appearance; it encompasses the happiness and assurance that women feel from their beauty. By recognizing that beauty should foster joy, Dior highlights the importance of feeling good about oneself, suggesting that both beauty and happiness are essential components of a fulfilling life.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about women's empowerment to highlight the importance of self-esteem.
You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.
Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.
Without foundations, there can be no fashion.
All I required to be happy was friendship and people I could admire.
Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.
We were emerging from the period of war, of uniforms, of women-soldiers built like boxers. I drew women-flowers, soft shoulders, fine waists like liana and wide skirts like corolla.
Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch it, it is all there and all ours for the taking." -- Cecilia to Henry Chinaski, liberty taken changing past tense to present tense (173)
The most important beauty is not that with which you were born, but the beauty of character which grows through a woman's life and maybe never stops growing.
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
I'm proud of my wrinkles. They give my face character. As an actress, you mess with that at your peril.
God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.
How I grew to believe Black hair has power, genius, and magic in it, defying gravity and limitation. I mean, look at how marvelous it is: Black hair grows up and out.
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