"There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night"

"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."

"Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony."

"As long as you know that most men are like children, you know everything."

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

"Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive."

"Youth is something very new: Twenty years ago no one mentioned it."

"Ik ben niet links, ik ben niet rechts. Ik ben recht-door-zee."

"Je bent geen ondernemer geworden om fulltime formulieren in te vullen."

"Women must believe in themselves."

"Once I became an adult, I finally began to get a sense of who I really am. I think that I developed my talents much, much more when I became an adult, actually when I got married."

"If a women is capable, deserving of a position of authority, then her gender should not be an issue. She should be judged on the basis of her ability and her competence and not because she is a woman."

"I love nice long walks, inspirational novels of influential people. I'm reading Kennedy - An Unfinished Life at the moment. And nothing beats listening to music and having tea with friends."

"I feel that no amount of women's participation can be said to be enough."

"No marriage is solid. There are always ups and downs. But we have learnt through those times and I was touched when celebrating my birthday recently, my husband stood up to make a speech and he said that I was a woman of substance."

"Seeing capable women holding positions of authority and importance in the country is very encouraging to young people, especially girls."