"My life wasn't a bed of roses, but I had a good life."

"I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I disliked would disappear."

"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time."

"I gave women a sense of freedom. I gave them back their bodies: bodies that were drenched in sweat, due to the corsets and underwear, the frills, the lace, the trimmings."

"Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance."