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

French women eat and serve what's in season, for maximum flavor and value, and know availability does not equal quality.

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

French women love bread and would never consider a life without carbs.

One does not laugh because one is happy; one is happy because one laughs.

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.

We only have one body, and you have to show respect for it.