Coco Chanel

Great loves too must be endured.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

My father was the president of the Hearst Corporation, and my parents were close friends of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and they all had pugs.

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.