"I always have doubts about what I do. When I start a show, I’m very timid and nervous for weeks and months. It takes a great deal out of me. It’s hard work. You start with an idea and you believe in it and then it grows around you . . .you gain confidence. Some days are big days. You jump. You get a whole excitable, marvelous . . . wonderful it-doesn’t-balance, what-the-hell-are-we-going-to-do feeling. Then you know. It all comes gradually and then entirely . . . somehow it ends up that people like it and I’m very happy, and very proud, and very very pleased, because that’s the job.
DIANA VREELAND born 1903, Paris, France — died 1989, New York City
