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" A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It's not based on real people. "

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" If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father. "

Gloria Vanderbilt

Extraordinary

You

" I believe in marriage and fidelity. "

" The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures. "

" Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion. "

" I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it indicates your destiny is chaotic. "

" I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does. "

" And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me. "

Gloria Vanderbilt

Belong

Mother

" I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure. "

Gloria Vanderbilt

Insecure

People

" I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success. "

" All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides. "

" In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness. "

" I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected. "

" I do spend money. I like to spend money, on houses - on furnishing houses. And I love to give presents to people. It's just in my nature to be that way. I always spent money I had. And I always spent what I made. I'm not stingy. "

" I can't bear to look at Paris Hilton and all that. I mean, it really doesn't grab me. I don't think she's interesting, and the sense of values seems sort of off-kilter. "

Gloria Vanderbilt

Interesting

Look

" I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel. "

" Many times, working is kind of like channeling, and I really don't know what's going to fall on the page. I just did this image of a fat girl and put her on a tiny mountain peak of grass that she's walking over. It just amused me. "

" In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left hand leads directly to the heart. I find it a very poetic idea. And that's why I only wear nail polish on my left ring finger. "

" The heart of another is a dark forest. "

" I do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetite for life. I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things I think, on the inside, show on the outside. "

" I don't read anything about myself. As a child, there was something in me that was just instinctive. I want to be clear in my spirit, and I don't want to be blocked by things that get inside of you and kill you. "

Gloria Vanderbilt

Myself

Spirit

" When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt? "

Gloria Vanderbilt

Says

Why

" I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about. "

" The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written. "

" If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty. "

" I've been really very fortunate with the men I've been involved with. They've always really treated me very, very wonderfully. And whenever anything broke up, I was always the one to leave. So I think I've been really very, very lucky. "

" When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.' "

" I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men. "

" You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better. "

" Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, form or narrative content - something we had not perceived before... and perhaps reveal something to you about yourself. "

" Everything in life is elusive. "