“My life didn't please me, so I created my life.”

“I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.”

“Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.”

“It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.”

“Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics”

“A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.”

“You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.”