I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto – the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.
SOPHIA LORENI know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.
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Without my mother’s ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.
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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.
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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
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The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.
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Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
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I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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I’ve never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don’t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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