204 Quotes by Donna Karan

I believe in comfort. If you don't feel comfortable in your clothes, it's hard to think of anything else.

Where there is creativity, there is hope.

My mother was a working woman, and I was alone a lot. So I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom.

Smell is the primordial sense, more powerful, more primitive, more intimately tied to our memories and emotions than any other. A scent can trigger spiritual, emotional or physical peace and stimulate healing and wellness.

Women should always take care of themselves first. It makes you more equipped to take care of others.

I also miss the support that I had of so many people. You know I'm a very Ma and Pa operation right now, and I was used to having everything working for me. It was a similar situation when I left Anne Klein and started Donna Karan. All of a sudden I was working in my apartment and it was, "Oh my god, what am I doing?"

I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you're talking her body, her voice or her leadership.

You know the bodysuit that I built my line on? . . .That was about me being able to go directly from work to yoga class. It just wasn't as accepted to talk about then.

I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world.