Mireille Guiliano (born April 14, 1946, in Moyeuvre-Grande, France) is a French-American author.
Expensive clothes with inappropriate or inexpensive shoes may send an unflattering message.
I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.
I've never been ambitious.
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.
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.
Taking care of your mental and physical health is just as important as any career move or responsibility.
Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret.
French women eat and serve what's in season, for maximum flavor and value, and know availability does not equal quality.
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.
People are unhappy when they are on diets, because it's 'don't do this, don't do that, do this, do that.
Nothing but beauty and douceur
French women don't have too many clothes - a few good pieces that last for a while and are classic and timeless.
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.
There is no lasting glory in rapid weight loss.
Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.
Once a day, take some 'Beach Time. '