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.
SOPHIA LORENThere’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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The mirror of your health is your skin. If you drink, it shows in your face; if you eat the wrong foods, you have pimples. If you take care of your food and you lead a healthy life, your skin will look wonderful.
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If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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Learn 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.
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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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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
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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.
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As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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My philosophy is that it’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.
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Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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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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You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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Without my mother’s ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.
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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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