I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it.

If you are sad, if you are heartbroken, make yourself up, dress up, add more lipstick and attack.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

The hat is not for the street: it will never be democratized. But there are certain houses that one cannot enter without a hat. And one must always wear a hat when lunching with people whom one does not know well. One appears to one's best advantage.

As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly.

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

It is always better to be slightly underdressed.