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

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

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

Taking care of your mental and physical health is just as important as any career move or responsibility.

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

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?

I love my kitchen. For Manhattan, I have a rather decent-size kitchen, and it has an opening that gives out to the dining room, which has a window with a view of the city and in the distance the Statue of Liberty.