Coco Chanel needs no introduction, a woman who has forever left her mark on the world of fashion, she remains an icon to this day. While her life and fashion career might have somewhat been lived in controversy, she was undoubtedly a pioneer and a forward-thinking designer who had very specific ideas about the meaning of true elegance, style and how to live your life. While the house of Chanel continues to lead in today’s fashion world, the woman herself has spoken many words of wisdom on topics of fashion, life advice and the modern woman, that have succeeded in outliving her. In celebration of Ms. Coco Chanel and her accomplishments for women’s fashion, here are 20 of her most memorable, wise and at times savage quotes.

1. “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
2. “In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.”
3. “There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
4. “Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.”
5. “Dress like you are going to meet your worst enemy today.”
6. “A woman with good shoes is never ugly.”
7. “I don’t do fashion, I am fashion.”
8. “Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance”
9. “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous”
10. “Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road.”
11. “Fashion passes, style remains.”
12. “‘Where should one use perfume?’ a young woman asked. ‘Wherever one wants to be kissed,’ I said.”
13. “There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.”
14. “If a man speaks badly about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.”
15. “Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses. Most women dress for men and want to be admired. But they must also be able to move, to get into a car without bursting their seams! Clothes must have a natural shape.”
16. “One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.”
17. “Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.”
18. “Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.”
19. “The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you”
20. “My Life didn’t please me, so I created my own life”