You and I don't have the same genetics, we don't live in the same places, but we can have the same basic attitude - being comfortable in our skin.

Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.

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.

I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.

Nothing but beauty and douceur

I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.

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.