The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.
Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need...
I’ve never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don’t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.
The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.
I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn’t and it really doesn’t have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.
If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
The right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.
If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
Good food is a celebration of life.
I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.
Show business is what I do, not what I am.
Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.
You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.
Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets – ‘piccoli segreti’ – that are simmering on the burners.
Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
My philosophy is that it’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.