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

Just as established products and brands need updating to stay alive and vibrant, you periodically need to refresh or reinvent yourself.

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

If you believe you can shed pounds quickly by force of will and deprivation, you will in all likelihood not only regain the ones you lost, but add a few more besides.

In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.

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.