Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
SOPHIA LORENUntil you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
SOPHIA LORENI eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.
SOPHIA LORENThe most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.
SOPHIA LORENYou do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
SOPHIA LORENTrue happiness is impossible without solitude.
SOPHIA LORENYou have to be born a sex symbol. You don’t become one. If you’re born with it, you’ll have it even when you’re 100 years old.
SOPHIA LORENI have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.
SOPHIA LORENI was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
SOPHIA LORENAs far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
SOPHIA LORENBe honest about what you can get. To make a sacrifice and to get what you want you need to be very certain. In other words: always think about your objective, have a clear goal and commit to it from the heart.
SOPHIA LORENI’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
SOPHIA LORENAny woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It’s not a question of clothes or makeup. It’s how she sparkles.
SOPHIA LORENI know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.
SOPHIA LORENTransformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
SOPHIA LORENHate is unfulfilled love.
SOPHIA LORENYou 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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