“so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.” 

“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” 

“Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.” 

“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.” 

"Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside."

 A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

"My life didn’t please me, so I created my life."

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men. 

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

 Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. 

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.

The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you. 

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men

"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."

"If you’re sad, add more lipstick and attack."

"I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not."

"Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance."

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!"

“A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.”