The mantra is forget your size discover your shape and transform yourself.

Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.

I literally change on the shop floor. I just stand there in my knickers sometimes.

As for the people who say tackling problems through clothes is superficial, I think they say that because they have their own issues about self worth.

If you want to make the best of yourself you don't necessarily need to diet - you need to wear the right stuff.

I hate trends, but I love fashion.

I had a strong faith that I would, eventually, have a baby.

A marriage can go wrong at any time.

The first time I was given money to shop for myself, I was 13 and staying with my godmother in New York. I went to Clinique and bought the three-step acne programme and felt so grown-up.

When I was 18, my mum gave me all the clothes she'd had made at the famous haute couture fashion label, House of Worth, in Paris. Of course, I eventually trashed them all.

If you want to make the best of yourself, you don't necessarily need to diet - you need to wear the right stuff.

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

Truthful hearts have clear blue skies permanently hidden and bound to thrive from the accusing mists of doubts and lies." ~ Angelica Hopes~ an excerpt from If I Could Tell You

I broke two knuckles in my right hand when I gave Jean-Claude Van Damme an attitude adjustment. I got nothing except a medical bill.

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

Our theaters, our museums, our culture. We have everything New York has without the hassles.

Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.

No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used.

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.