On Becoming a 'Lady': What every mother wants her daughter to be.

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.

Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Champagne makes you feel like it's Sunday and better days are just around the corner.

Glamour is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way, mentally and physically and in appearance, and that, whatever the occasion or the situation, you are equal to it.

You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them.

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

To lose your prejudices you must travel.

In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive.

A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

...they left a scar that would fade but never vanish.

Knowing how to dream is more important than the story, because the story tells itself.

I was a fashion addict by the time I was 11 years old. I'd wear a miniskirt and patent-leather boots.

How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister.

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.

I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.

To the medieval mind the possibility of doubt did not exist.