I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto – the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.
SOPHIA LORENLearn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then, perhaps, powder box you will not need. Know smart women men say beautiful – eyes snatched from the crowd and do not forget just charming.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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Good food is a celebration of life.
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The right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.
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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.
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I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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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.
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I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
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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.
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You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.
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When I’m walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner, there is something wonderful waiting for me. That’s my attitude.
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I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you – and notice it, and be glad for it.
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The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
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