After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.

I grew up in Perugia, Umbria, in a world outside of fashion, so I didn't learn about it until I was older and moved away. In Milan, the women are really into fashion, and all the big fashion brands are based there, but I don't think they feel pressure to look good all the time.

Envy is human nature.

In so many places in the world, women have been prisoners for so long that they feel they have to scream about their rights. But when you scream, nobody listens to you. Real authority comes when you no longer need to scream - and that's something we women still need to learn.

If a man sees a woman with red lipstick, he admires her, but often he won't feel like kissing her.

I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel.

For me, true beauty has nothing to do with wrinkles and everything to do with the fact that my maternal grandmother raised five children just after the war and remained a fighter throughout her life. True beauty is the slick of red lipstick my paternal grandmother would put on before going to church on Sunday.

I like to be in the spotlight once in a while, and then I like to be in the shadows. It's really regenerating.

I wouldn't want to be 20 again for anything.

I was very shy as a girl. Absurdly shy, even. Maybe because I was an only child. And I think that's why I'm so happy to have two kids now.

The single woman is a free woman, and being single does not mean being alone - it means being free to have a relationship or not. This can be scary, but it's also very interesting.

I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family.

I am certainly Italian in my love of food! I eat everything, but I love Italian food most of all. Even my daughter does. Her favourite food is pasta and parmigiana.

When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.

Just a touch of eyeliner and red lips is glamorous.

I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us.

I love jewelry - gold and diamonds. I'm a woman.

I am an agnostic, even though I respect and am interested in all religions. If there's something I believe in, it's a mysterious energy; the one that fills the oceans during tides, the one that unites nature and beings.

I do acupuncture. Because it really helps. It is the opposite of Botox. Botox blocks, and acupuncture moves.

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.

When I'm relaxed, jeans and a shirt are my uniform.

What's natural is beautiful, and when you're not you anymore, you become a caricature.

I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic.

A woman has so many facets, and when you create an image, you have to play with all the different moments of your femininity, not just one thing, because everybody can get bored.