“If people don’t like me, I become very plain.”

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy

I am against marriage, and I don’t give a fig for society.

It is better to be Unfaithful, than Faithful without wanting to be.

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves..

The world today doesn’t please me.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I am tired.

Fashion may not be a weapon of the woman but at least it gives her the ammunition.

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.

I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can’t find a way of avoiding it.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

I say what I think and I think what I say.

I never get hung up on the past – the memories are too negative.

I really am a cat transformed into a woman.

I never do anything by chance.

I have found out that friendship is quite as important as love and it isn’t any easier than love.

We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.

And I don’t think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there’s another set of moral codes, but I don’t think government has a role.

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run.

There’s a lot of people who don’t like Tom Brady and I’m OK with that.

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

I like to reminisce with people I don’t know.

People with a closed mindset want to grow by beating others in their field. Open-minded people, on the other hand, grow by developing themselves.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.