Aging is out of your control. How you handle it, though, is in your hands.

The success of every single woman is the inspiration for another.

I always was fascinated with China, because I was born in Europe, and for us, China had this fascination and mystery. The first time I came here was in 1989. They were on bicycles, and the speed of the growth has been incredible.

I've never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don't let it out. Then there's a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the tragedy.

If you're not sure what to wear, if you don't know how everyone else is going to be, then just be at your most beautiful.

I loved the seventies.

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.