Words matter. These are the best Mireille Guiliano Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m not a great consumer. I always ask myself, ‘Do I really need that piece?’ I have friends who have 300 pairs of shoes; how would you leave the house in the morning?
I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.
Scientifically, it has been proven that after three bites, your palate has been satisfied. It doesn’t matter what you eat. So if you eat one boule of ice cream, that’s all you need. You don’t have to eat pint after pint after pint.
People are unhappy when they are on diets, because it’s ‘don’t do this, don’t do that, do this, do that.’
When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.
Since the pleasure of most foods is in the first few bites, eat one thing on your plate at a time, at least at the start of the meal when you can concentrate and enjoy the full flavors.
We women are so judged by the way we dress, and men are not. So style is part of developing your own brand.
In the U.S., too many yogurts are filled with corn syrup, preservatives, artificial this and that. To me, this is poison.
Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.
French women don’t have too many clothes – a few good pieces that last for a while and are classic and timeless.
Just as established products and brands need updating to stay alive and vibrant, you periodically need to refresh or reinvent yourself.
I’ve never been ambitious.
There is no lasting glory in rapid weight loss.
The word that I constantly hear out of women is ‘fear.’ It’s almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren’t good enough because we have such high expectations.
Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don’t put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present.
Of course there are fat French women. There are fat people everywhere.
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.
Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.
In France we have a saying, ‘Joie de vivre,’ which actually doesn’t exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.
We only have one body, and you have to show respect for it.
If you believe you can shed pounds quickly by force of will and deprivation, you will in all likelihood not only regain the ones you lost, but add a few more besides.
I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.
In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.
Being and working in America, it’s very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it’s slow-moving and it’s not always good.
Quality of life is very important in France. I have many friends who turned down promotions and more money because it would affect their quality of life as a couple or a mother.
