My friends say everything I touch turns to gold. I'll say, 'I've been very lucky.

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.

Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret.

Of course there are fat French women. There are fat people everywhere.

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 #‎ France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.

Nothing but beauty and douceur