I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

If I cut my hair, others did. If I shortened my dresses, so did everyone else.

Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: 'One must not hide that!' Then someone tells you: 'The shoulder is on the back'. I have never seen women with shoulders on their backs.

Great loves too must be endured.

A woman without perfume is a woman without a future.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback.