a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.

I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.

I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing.

I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.

I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.