Quotes from Lee Radziwill

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

When I buy something, I do so with the intention of keeping it forever.

One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically.

There is something to be said for being older - and memories.

My childhood taught me nothing... zero.

The most important thing, I've found, is to be self-reliant.

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.

New Yorkers are obsessed with youth and eternal youth and then their careers and making money.

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.

I'm constantly falling in love with objects, and they follow me around the world.

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.'

I don't like dining rooms. I think they have too much structure and are too formal.

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.