56 Uplifting Gloria Vanderbilt Quotes To Keep Your Spirit Alive
A member of the powerful and wealthy Vanderbilt family of New York, Gloria Vanderbilt was a renowned designer, entrepreneur, writer, and fashion icon, who was the source of inspiration for generations of young girls. Her love for life was evident in everything she did. Born with refined aesthetic sensibilities, she sought art and beauty in all things. She had an incredible, impeccable, and graceful sense of style. Despite being married four times, she held an optimistic view of love. She believed that women should work together for mutual success. We have collected many of her quotes from interviews, articles, speeches, and her writings. Here are some of the things that she has to say on fashion, love, women empowerment and writing.
You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.
Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal.
When I was photographed, I didn't feel I was acting. I just felt I was being photographed. It sort of taught me things about myself that I didn't know and was trying to find out.
When I was being photographed, I always felt very much in my own skin. That's probably one of the reasons why I enjoy being photographed.
When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?
To be pregnant has been for me each time the supreme joy ... I was doing the greatest thing in the world without having to do anything -- all I had to do was be.
To be happy--one must find one's bliss
Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.
The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.
The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.
The heart of another is a dark forest.
The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you
Some of us are born with a sense of loss. It is not acquired as we grow. It is already there from the beginning, and it pervades us throughout our lives.
Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life.
One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.
Nobody should get married at 17.
In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.
If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.
If you have health, you have everything.
I've resolved so many things in my life. I like the idea of showing that you can go through a lot and still be on your feet, still be working, and still be positive about life.
I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.
I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
I'm the girliest girl you are ever going to meet.
I'm always in love. If it's not with a man, it's something else. I love beauty. I love the sky I see outside the window. There's so much beauty in the world.
I'm a ham. I always like to answer spontaneously.
I'll always remain friends with men I've been in love with. Each one gave me so much, in so many ways.
I was fearless. Wild horses couldn't stop me.
I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it indicates your destiny is chaotic.
I think something wonderful is going to happen to me. Maybe tomorrow. The phone can ring and your whole life can change.
I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.
