On learning, aged 10, that she could be an Olympic sprinter:
How frightful! What on earth will happen to my calves? (1960)
Responding to a complaint from Cindy Crawford's agent after three of her photo shoots were dropped:
Cindy Crawford's just another model - I'm Anna Wintour (1996)
Asked by Vogue editor Grace Mirabella what job she wanted:
Yours (1982)
On editing:
A magazine should be like a perfect dinner party. The two essentials are a politician and a pretty girl (1977)

On her public image:
I read in the New York Times this week that I'm an ice queen, I'm the sun king, I'm an alien fleeing from District 9 and I'm a dominatrix. So I reckon that makes me a lukewarm royalty with a whip from outer space. Whattaya think? (2009)
On her first day as editor of British Vogue, seeing photos of a model with her head wrapped in bandages:
Oh my God, I'm back in England (1986)
Advice to an assistant about clothes:
You have to throw out everything you own (1977)
After a fur protestor dropped a dead racoon on her plate at the Four Seasons Grill Room:
Merry Christmas. Coffee, please ... (1996)
On the fuller figure:
I have just been on a trip to Minnesota, where I can only kindly describe most of the people I saw as little houses (2009)
On Vogue's website:
Come up with a new word for "blog" (2007)
On being sacked in 1976 by US Harper's Bazaar:
They didn't feel I understood the American woman - maybe they had a point (1986)
Asked by her best friend why she always hung up the phone without saying goodbye:
There's no point is there, really? We've finished talking (1962)
On The Devil Wears Prada:
I seem to remember that the film was fiction. We really like fiction at Vogue (2009)
On Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp:
If you are going to make accusations about the President, you had better have a good hairdresser (1998)
Sweet treats,
Daiane
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