French Woman Quotes

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.

French women love bread and would never consider a life without carbs.

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.

French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.

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.

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.

French women don't eat Wonder Bread.

French women don't have too many clothes - a few good pieces that last for a while and are classic and timeless.

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

Of course there are fat French women. There are fat people everywhere.

The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'

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