We women are so judged by the way we dress, and men are not. So style is part of developing your own brand.

There is no lasting glory in rapid weight loss.

People are unhappy when they are on diets, because it's 'don't do this, don't do that, do this, do that.

The real reason French women don't get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating and dieting, the obesity problem in France would be much worse than what has struck America.

In the U.S., too many yogurts are filled with corn syrup, preservatives, artificial this and that. To me, this is poison.

I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.

I find it so unattractive when women wear sneakers with their business suits. I wear a nice pair of loafers or low-heeled pumps, and that's that.