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

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

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.

I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.

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.

People are unhappy when they are on diets, because it's 'don't do this, don't do that, do this, do that.'