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

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?

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

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

French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.

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.

I've never been ambitious.