"I never think about how other people will respond to the way I dress."

"I can't look at one person's life and say, 'I want that life.' I want to make my own history."

"Nobody's going to fight for you as much as you fight for yourself."

"If I'm not with somebody who really excites or inspires me, then I'd rather be by myself."

"No one can limit you. No one can tell you what to do or what not to do."

"The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence."

"We're all born feeling perfect until somebody tells us we're not. So there's nothing I can teach my daughter. She already has all of it. The only thing I can do is protect what she already feels."

People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves.

"You can't really go wrong, as long as you're true to yourself."

"You can learn a lot from criticism if you can take what's constructive out of it. If you read a review that starts with, 'This person is an idiot; who do they think they are?', you're not going to learn anything from that."

"It's the choice. You have to wake up every day and say, 'There's no reason today can't be the best day of my life'."

"The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it."

"I look at anything in life like as long as you do what you believe in, then it's going to work out. Because even if other people don't like what you're doing, you're happy because you did what you believed in."

"The only time I've ever done something and felt real reward is when I've done something that's incredibly risky, because without great risks it's impossible to have huge success."

"What do you do with your best friend? You do nothing."

"I need good friends who can say, 'I love you to death, but you look terrible in that, and you need to change right now.'"

"My greatest passion is my personal life. And family is the heart of everything I do."

"I should hope I dress differently at 25 than I did when I graduated high school. I hope I never stop changing."

"Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that."

"All I need is my Chanel dress, my Louboutins, and some red lipsticks."