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" With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect. "
Mireille Guiliano
You
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" The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren't good enough because we have such high expectations. "
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" In France we have a saying, 'Joie de vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it. "
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" There is no lasting glory in rapid weight loss. "
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" In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure. "
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" 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. "
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" French women don't have too many clothes - a few good pieces that last for a while and are classic and timeless. "
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" Of course there are fat French women. There are fat people everywhere. "
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" I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas. "
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" 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. "
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" Being and working in America, it's very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it's slow-moving and it's not always good. "
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" 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. "
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" 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? "
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" 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. "
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" When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds. "
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" In the U.S., too many yogurts are filled with corn syrup, preservatives, artificial this and that. To me, this is poison. "
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" Women are smarter by basic instinct and by what we have to do to multitask at home and at work. My mother did that 50 years ago, but it wasn't called multitasking or stress back then. She had a job, two kids and the meals to make with no cook or maid. My father would come home every day and expect lunch. He was a nice guy, but he was clueless! "
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