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.
— Lee Radziwill
Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. It brings tears to your eyes.
I hate touch football.
The most important thing, I've found, is to be self-reliant.
New Yorkers are obsessed with youth and eternal youth and then their careers and making money.
When I look back on my life, it seems nearly everything of interest happened in little more than one decade - dramas, tragedies, major events, pleasures, my close friendships with artists and political figures, the lovely places where I lived in England and New York, the trips to Europe, visits at the White House.
If I really can be said to have a personal style, I think it is reflected in my taste for the exotic and the unexpected. I like to create rooms which are essentially traditional - and then add touches of the bizarre and the delicious.
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.
I've often thought - even though it's hard to give him even more credit than he has had - that Andy Warhol must have started a lot of 15 minutes of fame.
I never saw a play with my mother until I was 14, and then it was 'Hansel and Gretel.'
There's a McDonald's in the Louvre.
There is something to be said for being older - and memories.
No, I never did hats. I didn't - never felt they were so becoming to me.
Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.
I eat like a horse; sometimes I think I must have cancer.
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.
Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven't are either liars... or narcissists.
I don't like dining rooms. I think they have too much structure and are too formal.
Taste is an emotion.
I've always wanted to be an actress. At school and in college, I did some things. But then I married, and then I had children, and then there were the political years.
Paris is life-enhancing for all those reasons we know and all those words that have become so banal.
I believe that without memories there is no life, and that our memories should be of happy times.
I'm constantly falling in love with objects, and they follow me around the world.
I always begin a room with the rug; it is literally the foundation of the space. I then go on to the furniture.
I like people like Andre Malraux, Edmund Wilson, Willa Cather, Robert Graves, Erik Erikson, and Francis Steegmuller.
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.
When I was young, I used to think that everyone should die at 70.
Onassis told me. He begged me to come to the wedding.
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.
There were so many things I couldn't do when my brother-in-law was president.
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've always been interested in art, architecture, color.
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.'
My childhood taught me nothing... zero.
Despite loving England and loving English gardens, I'm not a chintz person, never was. It's too cute.
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.
I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something.
I don't know what happened, but I lost the desire to acquire more things. It's very peaceful to have lost that desire.
I am always aware that I've had a special and privileged life, yet it has been balanced by tragedy as it has been for so many others.
When I buy something, I do so with the intention of keeping it forever.
My ideal evening is to have dinner with one person or a few persons, and then be in bed by 11.
I'm obviously all for women's lib.
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.
I feel like I'm in my own world: in the world but not a part of it.
It is difficult for someone raised in my world to learn to express emotion. We are taught early to hide our feelings publicly.
My mother endlessly told me I was too fat, that I wasn't a patch on my sister. It wasn't much fun growing up with her and her almost irrational social climbing in that huge house of my dull stepfather Hughdie Auchincloss in Washington.
Marriage is an extremely difficult relationship.
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.
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.
