Her Quotes

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

I heard my mother talking badly of me to people who were talking badly of me in her salon. That's probably the thing that I'm most sensitive of in all my friendships and my relationships. I just... I just can't take that. I'm comfortable with enemies, but I can't take it from friends.

Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?

At the end of the day, I want to create collections that, although I am inspired by very creative women, I want my customer to walk away with a silhouette that she doesn't even know what collection it comes from. That it just lasts in her wardrobe and makes her feel strong and confident and hopefully happy.

In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.

I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again.

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.

Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.

As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

I never met Barbara Cartland. But now that I'm working on her life, I wish I had. I think there was a lot of pathos in it and I'm intrigued by her.

She knows I'm her biggest fan, I cheer for her louder than anybody.

I felt probably more uncomfortable than Beyonce. But I can't answer for her.

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

There's a broad with a big future behind her.

Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.

My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be.

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived.

That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.