Quotes from Mireille Guiliano

A light supper, starting with an evening soup (often done in French households), is conducive to a great night's sleep.

For this reason, three months is the usual time to find your way. But you must enjoy the ride.

For many, the twenties seem like the time of infinite possibility, although in retrospect a woman will almost always idealize her thirties.

Doctors recommend swimming for the heart, the back, the morale, and the waistline.

A woman should wear fragrance wherever she expects to be kissed

Erica Jong believes "gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

French women don't eat Wonder Bread.

A meal that can be packed and frozen and thawed is nothing you should desire--much less teach your kids to want.

You owe it to your loved ones as well as yourself to know and pursue your pleasures.

On the whole, "offenders" are foods we tend to eat compulsively, with less actual pleasure than you might think. Often they are poor versions of something better.

I am all for comfort, but does comfort mean loss of attractiveness or identity