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Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'

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Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
Editor
Fashion Editor
Journalist
Socialite
Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
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Prettiness
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Empowering
Female
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Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.
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If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.
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There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds!
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I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
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Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
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You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.
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People who eat white bread have no dreams.
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Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
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I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!
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When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.
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To be contented—that’s for the cows.
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For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.
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Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.
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Don't you loathe the word workaholic? It has nothing to do with an important thing, that you and your secretary are at the office until 6:30. But that's life, kiddo. 24-hour work doesn't go on in America. 24-hour work is what Italy and Holland did after the war. The lights never went out!
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My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
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One thing I hold against Americans is that they have no flair for the rain. They seem unsettled by it it's against them: they take it as an assault, an inconvenience! But rain is so wonderfully cleansing, so refreshing, so calming...
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If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.
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All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I want rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple’—they have no idea what I’m talking about. About the best red is to copy the color of a child’s cap in any Renaissance portrait.
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I think part of my success as an editor came from never worrying about a fact, a cause, an atmosphere. It was me—projecting to the public. That was my job. I think I always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. Give ‘em what they never knew they wanted.
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This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.
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