Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

I am happy to the spokeswoman for this French youth that tomorrow will be spearhead new hope in the shape of the National Front.

They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.