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.

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.

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

Once a day, take some 'Beach Time.'

Give us being and feeling over having any day.

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

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