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I hate the word 'feminine!' I mean, there is a woman and a man, and when I say 'woman,' it suggests all that is radiant, tender, fascinating, gentle, demoniac, exaggerated! 'Feminine' makes me think of somebody who is spindly and over-sweet - I don't like that!

I just can't live without chocolate - I have between two and six pieces every day.

Sonia Rykiel

I don't know why some women don't wear make-up. Every woman should gild the lily.

Sonia Rykiel

Knowing yourself, and learning to love yourself as you are, is the beginning of beauty. I think the most important thing is to show off what's most beautiful about you and to hide what's less beautiful.

Sonia Rykiel

Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead.

Sonia Rykiel

First I made a dress because I was pregnant and I wanted to be the most beautiful pregnant woman. Then I made a sweater because I wanted to have one that wasn't like anyone else's.

Sonia Rykiel

My mother knitted a lot, but I never did; it was no fun.

Sonia Rykiel

As soon as the show is over, I always think, 'How will the woman I design for go forward?' It's so important to start quickly because I can't let her get away.

Sonia Rykiel

People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed, because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral.

Sonia Rykiel

At hotels, you are an actress. Absolutely. You can do what you want. Go where you want. I love my home too. But I love to arrive in a hotel. They have books, chocolate, food. I put things in the little refrigerator.

Sonia Rykiel

I don't know how to knit.

Sonia Rykiel

My breakfast is very important.

Sonia Rykiel

You have to be luxurious nude. It's difficult to move in the nude in front of a mirror. It's much easier to move when you're dressed. But if you can walk around in the nude easily in front of your man, if you can be luxurious in the nude, then you've really got it.

Sonia Rykiel

I don't read e-mails because I hate them.

Sonia Rykiel

As soon as I am up, I brush my hair. I eat breakfast first: tea and brown bread, and sometimes a fresh fruit juice like orange or grapefruit. I write notes on the previous day in my notebook, then I shower.

Sonia Rykiel

I hate the word 'feminine!' I mean, there is a woman and a man, and when I say 'woman,' it suggests all that is radiant, tender, fascinating, gentle, demoniac, exaggerated! 'Feminine' makes me think of somebody who is spindly and over-sweet - I don't like that!

Sonia Rykiel

When I started in fashion, for the first 10 years, I said to myself every day, 'I'm going to quit tomorrow.'

Sonia Rykiel

I've never been interested in dressing one woman. What's interested me was to have a philosophy. It hasn't been important to put a woman in a blue dress. I wanted to dress women who wanted to look at themselves. To stand out. To be women who were not part of the crowd. A woman who fights and advances.

Sonia Rykiel

It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry.

Sonia Rykiel

I was supposed to be a mother like my mother, who didn't work.

Sonia Rykiel

I wasn't interested in fashion originally. Fashion was for other people.

Sonia Rykiel

How can you live the high life if you do not wear high heels? I don't understand why women wear these ballet pumps. They are only good if you walk like a ballet dancer, and only ballet dancers do that.

Sonia Rykiel

French women famously take care over their appearance, but this wasn't instilled in me as I grew up. I was taught that beauty comes from different places, from the inside and from the outside.

Sonia Rykiel

1968 was the beginning of the hippie movement in fashion. That movement made fashion change completely. It was not necessary to be always dressed up. You could be dressed the way you wanted - it was absolute freedom.

Sonia Rykiel

Women should look at themselves and decide for themselves what color or length they should wear.

Sonia Rykiel

I came from an intellectual Parisian family. My father was a watchmaker; my mother was a housewife. We discussed politics, art, sculpture - never fashion.

Sonia Rykiel

A dress will never make a woman sexy, fatale, magnificent, mysterious. It's a way of walking, of standing, or existing, the way you give your hand or your regard. That's what makes the dress.

Sonia Rykiel

To me, the biggest revolution of the 20th century was the pill.

Sonia Rykiel

We are working women. Also, we have the problem of children, of men, to take care of our houses, so many things. I try to explain that in my clothes. They are clothes for everyday life. That is the real life of woman.

Sonia Rykiel

I want women to learn to find themselves.

Sonia Rykiel

I hate wasting time getting dressed. I like to put something on and just think, 'Yes. That's it.'

Sonia Rykiel

I have no regrets in life, and you know what? If I could, I'd go back and do it all again.

Sonia Rykiel

I was a tomboy, always fairly eccentric, and convinced I'd grow up to be an actress.

Sonia Rykiel

Wherever I go, I buy shoes.

Sonia Rykiel

What pushes me forward is everything I have learned: political, social, cultural. I put all that into the clothes.

Sonia Rykiel

You can have a conversation with your eyes.

Sonia Rykiel

It's not true that clothes look better on skinny girls; what counts is the attitude.

Sonia Rykiel