What character traits helped Coco Chanel overcome her struggle of poverty?

Answer 1

First. She was a dreamer. A lot of people would say later that she was a liar, but I personally doubt that was the case. Chanel created a dream and lived it. "Nobody can live with low horizons. A narrow outlook will choke you." (Coco Chanel) Second. She was a real rebel in a positive/negative senses of the word. When she was already old and successful, she said the following about her years spent in the orphanage: "It's mean and nasty aunts {she meant nuns} who create winners, and give them inferiority complexes, although in my case the result was a superiority complex. Under nastiness looms strength, under pride a taste for success and a passion for grandeur." - Coco Chanel You can read more about Coco Chanel at http://www.famous-women-and-beauty.com