Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
Coco ChanelRead
Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the strength of women, challenging traditional notions of strength associated with men.
Coco Chanel highlights a critical perspective on strength and gender dynamics, asserting that while men are often seen as the stronger sex, it is actually women who embody true strength. By encouraging women to acknowledge their own power, Chanel seeks to empower them and redefine societal perceptions of strength.
In practice
In a women's empowerment workshop to inspire self-confidence.
Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
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You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.
Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys.
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In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.
We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.
If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss.
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