I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.
There are some mosques with facilities for women; it's usually a back room with a back-door entrance.
In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant culture, while ignoring criminal abuse of women and girls.
My obsession is to make women beautiful. When you create with that in mind, things can't go out of fashion.
I make clothes; women make fashion.
There was a woman in Tunisia called Madame Pinot. She was a midwife and had helped in the birth of my siblings and me. I assisted her. I helped women give birth to a lot of babies when I was very young.
The danger is we're losing sight of what women really want to wear.
I never followed fashion. It's women who have dictated my conduct.
You know Sarkozy offered me the Legion d'honneur medal? I refused. People said I refused because I don't like Sarkozy, but that's ridiculous. I refused because I don't like decorations - except on women.
In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.
Why are women always the ones who have to forgive? If you cheated on a man, he would be like, 'You're disgusting, and I want nothing to do with you.' But women, we're supposed to be like, 'He messed up. He made a mistake.'
I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
What is it about women that they just go right for the guy that totally repulses them?
I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It makes me so angry. I really wonder what it is we are doing to ourselves, because I do think wome...
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
For the record, I believe that women and their doctors should have access to oral contraception when desired by the patient and medically appropriate.
I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating. I'm addicted to creating. And women.
