LEE RADZIWILL

As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

Decorating has always been my hobby.

One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically.

Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven't are either liars... or narcissists.

My childhood taught me nothing... zero.

Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.

When I was married, I didn't work. When I had my children, I didn't work. But before that, I'd work for Diana Vreeland at 'Harper's Bazaar.'

If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.

I eat like a horse; sometimes I think I must have cancer.

Marriage is an extremely difficult relationship.

I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life.

I think grieving is the same for everybody that lost someone you love deeply. It's the same. You know, you're really no different than anybody else who's lost somebody they adored.

I have a great curiosity to see new things, but not to own them. It's very peaceful this way, and one of the nice things about getting older.

I always begin a room with the rug; it is literally the foundation of the space. I then go on to the furniture.

I find it hard to read people's minds, my own children's minds even harder. But it all worked out, and I was blessed with two wonderful children.

I'm obviously all for women's lib.

Jackie's dream was France, but mine was really art and Italy, as that was all I cared about through school. My history of art teacher, who saved my life at Farmington, was obsessed with Bernard Berenson, and I succumbed as well.

When I was seven and we lived in New York, I ran away. I took my dog and started out across the Brooklyn Bridge... I didn't get very far... It's rather difficult to run away in your mother's high heels.

The most important thing, I've found, is to be self-reliant.

It is difficult for someone raised in my world to learn to express emotion. We are taught early to hide our feelings publicly.

I don't know where this myth that I go to a lot of parties stems from. It's a total myth. I may go out to something special once a year.

My father, naturally, spoiled me when I was allowed to see him - flying to New York from Washington, alone, in those terrifying planes. He'd take me to Danny Kaye movies and rent a dog for me to walk in the park on Sunday - a different dog every Sunday - and then to have butterscotch sundaes with almonds at Schrafft's.

Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. It brings tears to your eyes.

Despite loving England and loving English gardens, I'm not a chintz person, never was. It's too cute.