When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist and as an anti-war activist, I heard about what was happening to women, and I wanted to do something to support those folks.
Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.
Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence.
The older I get, the more impressed I am with women. I have yet to meet a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.
What I think I sell with my clothes is confidence, so hopefully all my dresses, my accessories, are friends to the women. When you open the closet, and your eyes are swollen, and you don't like the way you look, you go to your friends.
I think all races are represented in America much more than in many other places, but it's also nice to remind people about that ethnic mix. I would like to see more black models and women from different ethnic backgrounds, but I also think that when...
I'm all about empowering women. And by lining them up against the wall and weighing them, surely you are making them feel more like meat than ever - even if it's little meat, if you know what I mean.
The fashion industry has a responsibility to represent a healthy image of women, but to start weighing them and putting them against a wall and making them feel like animals? No.
I can honestly say that I understand women very well. If you understand yourself, you understand women, because, in the end, all women are the same.
Women inspire me... so I enjoy women's stories and biographies. I am interested in all women.
I have always been attracted to clothes designed by women. Coco Chanel, Vionnet, Norma Kamali, Donna Karan. They have a little more - how do I put it? - understanding.
I've always been inspired by women, and my mission was to inspire women. I always wanted to become a certain kind of woman, and I became that woman through fashion. It was a dialogue. I would see that the wrap dress made those women confident, and ma...
Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.
You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.
I'm into women. I've always loved women.
I don't have to announce all the women I've slept with.
Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.
In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands.
My mother used to say, 'You gotta exercise.' She would really pound on me to exercise every day. She was very physically fit; she was on the basketball team in high school in St. Louis in the 1920s, when women didn't do that. And she taught me to pla...
When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something wrong.
There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.
