French women love to shop and prepare food. They love to talk about what they have bought and made. It's a deeply natural love, but one that is erased in many other cultures. Most French women learn it from their mothers, some from their fathers. But if your parents aren't French, you can still learn it yourself.

French women don't eat Wonder Bread.

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

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

I'm not a great consumer. I always ask myself, 'Do I really need that piece?' I have friends who have 300 pairs of shoes; how would you leave the house in the morning?

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

I am a believer in change peu a` peu (little by little) since drastic changes, including lots of changes made all at once, are often the sort of modifications that don't stick.