Mireille Guiliano Quotes - Page 2

French women love bread and would never consider a life without carbs.

There is no lasting glory in rapid weight loss.

People are unhappy when they are on diets, because it's 'don't do this, don't do that, do this, do that.

Learn to say no, with an eye to saying yes to something else.

I've never been ambitious.

In the U.S., too many yogurts are filled with corn syrup, preservatives, artificial this and that. To me, this is poison.

French women eat and serve what's in season, for maximum flavor and value, and know availability does not equal quality.

My friends say everything I touch turns to gold. I'll say, 'I've been very lucky.

Of course there are fat French women. There are fat people everywhere.

Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.

I find it so unattractive when women wear sneakers with their business suits. I wear a nice pair of loafers or low-heeled pumps, and that's that.

Nothing but beauty and douceur

Expensive clothes with inappropriate or inexpensive shoes may send an unflattering message.

French women love to shop and prepare food. They love to talk about what they have bought and made. It's a deeply natural love, but one that is erased in many other cultures. Most French women learn it from their mothers, some from their fathers. But if your parents aren't French, you can still learn it yourself.

If you believe you can shed pounds quickly by force of will and deprivation, you will in all likelihood not only regain the ones you lost, but add a few more besides.

I'm not a great consumer. I always ask myself, 'Do I really need that piece?' I have friends who have 300 pairs of shoes; how would you leave the house in the morning?

I love my kitchen. For Manhattan, I have a rather decent-size kitchen, and it has an opening that gives out to the dining room, which has a window with a view of the city and in the distance the Statue of Liberty.

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

Once a day, take some 'Beach Time.'