Lee Radziwill Quotes

Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?

I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.

I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.

I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure.

There is nothing worse than bright lighting - it isn't flattering and makes the glamorous women want to leave.

I didn't want to be the aunt where you come over and can't sit on the sofa.

Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.

If you cling to an experience that cannot accommodate change, this can cause you to become a victim of that change. He who worships the past will remain there.

Consistency is the defense of a small mind

An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

Nature has a funny way of breaking what does not bend.

There’s something brittle in me that will break before it bends.

Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.

Weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.

She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

Nature will not let us stay in any one place for too long. She will let us stay just long enough to gather the experience necessary to the unfolding and advancement of the soul. This is a wise provision, for should we stay there too long, we would become too set, too rigid, too inflexible. Nature demands change in order that we may advance.

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

When you sit on something trying to preserve it, you die and become sterile.

... always been a goal-oriented girl. it was both her strength and her weakness. She had a drive to completion that always gets things done, but it also made her inflexible, and stubborn.

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'