The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.
SOPHIA LORENLuck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
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A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.
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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
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Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can’t do any of them well – and I like to do everything perfectly.
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You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you – and notice it, and be glad for it.
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Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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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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I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.
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Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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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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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.
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