French Woman Quotes

• French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies, the way they move and speak, they're very confident of their sexuality. French society's made them like that

  Charlotte Rampling

  Beautiful, Moving, People

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• 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.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Race, Modesty, Kind

  Hippolyte Taine (1875). “Notes on Paris”, p.317

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• Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Meaningful, Essence, Choices

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

  Mireille Guiliano

  Clothes, Pieces, Lasts

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• 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.

  Jason Clarke

  Thinking, Soul, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Mireille Guiliano

  Thinking, Worry, Good Things

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Humanos

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• 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.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Mother, Father, Other Cultures

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• A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Fashion, Ignorance, Order

  "On the Ladies' Passion for Levelling All Distinction of Dress". Essay by Oliver Goldsmith,

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• Es curioso porque creo que tanto Francia como Gran Bretaña son conocidas por sus estilos distintivos y todo el mundo dice que Francia es tan chic y elegante, pero yo creo que más que eso las mujeres francesas tienen fama de vestirse con lo que les sienta bien.

  Alexa Chung

  Thinking, Style, France

  "Maje fascina a Alexa Chung en una colaboración de moda francesa y británica". Entrevista con Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. 12 de octubre de 2012.

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• To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even than Roman women, to be honest. Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say-- no detail spared in the quest for perfection. They’re like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Men, Italian

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.68, A&C Black

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• Lo mejor de las mujeres americanas es su energía y su forma de vestir. Las francesas no se visten realmente; son demasiado conservadoras, ya que siempre es una cuestión de dinero. En Estados Unidos, las mujeres son poderosas y fuertes, decididas. Si quieren ser un objeto, eligen tener el control.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Strong, Powerful, America

  "Fashion Spotlight: Jean Paul Gaultier" by Anne Slowey, www.elle.com. January 21, 2010.

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• I saw this French woman, this English man in Italy. It was a film [Certified Copy] I knew well, but I had already seen it, and I was familiar with it, and I had no feeling of anxiety or responsibility toward it.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Responsibility, Men, Anxiety

  Entrevista con Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. 17 de marzo de 2011.

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• In the end, the best part of the whole book [The Nightingale ] to me was the research, reading about the courageous, ordinary French women who put their lives on the line to save others. It was really inspirational.

  Megan Chance

  Book, Reading, Ordinary

  Fuente: www.omnivoracious.com

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

  Juliette Binoche

  Sand, Great French

  "Biografía/Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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

  Mireille Guiliano

  Bread, Carbs

  "The pleasure principle". Interview with Lara Ceroni, www.ellecanada.com. August 15, 2005.

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• French women eat and serve what's in season, for maximum flavor and value, and know availability does not equal quality.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Availability, Quality, Flavor

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• Las mujeres reaccionan de forma diferente: una francesa que se vea traicionada por su marido matará a su amante; una italiana matará a su marido; una española matará a ambos; y una alemana se suicidará.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Husband, Italian, Mistress

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• 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.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Real, America, France

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• I've never had help from anyone, ever. I've never had this great director who saw themselves in me, because I'm a French woman in Hollywood. Who could identify with me as a successful director in Hollywood? Nobody. And the few people who could have been mentors, instead they just stole my ideas.

  Julie Delpy

  Éxito, Ideas, Personas

  "Julie Delpy: Male Directors Have Stolen My Ideas". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. March 22, 2016.

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• French women don't eat Wonder Bread.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Bread, Wonder

  Mireille Guiliano (2013). “French Women Don't Get Fat”, p.208, Random House

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• Las mujeres estadounidenses caen a menudo en la trampa de: "Oh, esta es mi ropa de fin de semana. Esta es mi ropa de trabajo. Esto es lo que me pongo por la noche". Es tan anticuado. Las francesas no tienen miedo de su lujo. Las estadounidenses pueden ser tan puritanas y pensar: "Ese es mi bolso para ocasiones especiales". Mientras que para una mujer francesa, es su bolso de todos los días.

  Michael Kors

  Otoño, Fin de semana, Noche

  "Exclusiva: Michael Kors' Lifetime Achievements". Entrevista con Katie Connor, www.marieclaire.com. 13 de septiembre de 2010.

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• I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Thinking, Two, Literature

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

  Linda Wells

  Clean, Found, Said

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

  Mireille Guiliano

  People, Fats, Courses

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