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  • French women don't eat Wonder Bread.

    Mireille Guiliano (2013). “French Women Don't Get Fat”, p.208, Random House
  • French women eat and serve what's in season, for maximum flavor and value, and know availability does not equal quality.

  • I've never had help from anyone, ever. I've never had this great director who saw themselves in me, because I'm a French woman in Hollywood. Who could identify with me as a successful director in Hollywood? Nobody. And the few people who could have been mentors, instead they just stole my ideas.

    "Julie Delpy: Male Directors Have Stolen My Ideas". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. March 22, 2016.
  • You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular, are good at. There's still a sense that you need to keep some of the unknown because that's where the soul resides, or something.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

  • Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret.

  • In the end, the best part of the whole book [The Nightingale ] to me was the research, reading about the courageous, ordinary French women who put their lives on the line to save others. It was really inspirational.

    Book   Reading   Ordinary  
    Source: www.omnivoracious.com
  • Of course there are fat French women. There are fat people everywhere.

  • A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.

    "On the Ladies' Passion for Levelling All Distinction of Dress". Essay by Oliver Goldsmith,
  • French women love bread and would never consider a life without carbs.

    "The pleasure principle". Interview with Lara Ceroni, www.ellecanada.com. August 15, 2005.
  • American women often fall into the trap of, "Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work clothes. This is what I wear at night." It's so old-fashioned. The French are not afraid of their luxury. Americans can be so puritanical and think, "That's my special-occasion bag." Whereas, for a French woman, it's her everyday bag.

    Fall   Weekend   Night  
    "Exclusive: Michael Kors' Lifetime Achievements". Interview with Katie Connor, www.marieclaire.com. September 13, 2010.
  • It's funny because I think that both France and Britain are known for their distinctive styles and everyone says that France is so chic and elegant but I think more than that French women are renowned for dressing in what suits them.

    "Maje Fetes Alexa Chung in a French Meets British Fashion Collab". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 12, 2012.
  • French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.

  • There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty; to the French woman a propriety.

    Hippolyte Taine (1875). “Notes on Paris”, p.317
  • I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

  • Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said: Americans are too clean . . . I took no offense.

  • I saw this French woman, this English man in Italy. It was a film [Certified Copy] I knew well, but I had already seen it, and I was familiar with it, and I had no feeling of anxiety or responsibility toward it.

    Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 17, 2011.
  • French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies, the way they move and speak, they're very confident of their sexuality. French society's made them like that

  • I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • French women don't have too many clothes - a few good pieces that last for a while and are classic and timeless.

  • To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say-- no detail spared in the quest for perfection. They’re like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.

    Beautiful   Men   Italian  
    Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.68, A&C Black
  • The real reason French women don't get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating and dieting, the obesity problem in France would be much worse than what has struck America.

  • The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don't really dress; they are too conservative, as it's always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.

    "Fashion Spotlight: Jean Paul Gaultier" by Anne Slowey, www.elle.com. January 21, 2010.
  • The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'

  • Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.

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