Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

I fell in love with beauty a long, long time ago, but what I wanted was to create beauty - not to be blinded by it.

I have never had my face lifted. I prefer to have my spirits lifted. In my opinion, the effect is very nearly the same.

Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

But what parent can tell when some . . . fragmentary gift of knowledge or wisdom will enrich her children's lives? Or how a small seed of information passed from one generation to another may generate a new science, a new industry-a seed which neither the giver nor the receiver can truly evaluate at the time.

All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.