Mireille Guiliano (born April 14, 1946, in Moyeuvre-Grande, France) is a French-American author.
One does not laugh because one is happy; one is happy because one laughs.
Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret.
In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.
I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.
Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.
Nothing but beauty and douceur
Just as established products and brands need updating to stay alive and vibrant, you periodically need to refresh or reinvent yourself.
Expensive clothes with inappropriate or inexpensive shoes may send an unflattering message.
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.
We only have one body, and you have to show respect for it.
Give us being and feeling over having any day.
There is no lasting glory in rapid weight loss.
With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.
Of course there are fat French women. There are fat people everywhere.
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.
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.
Learn to say no, with an eye to saying yes to something else.
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.
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?
Taking care of your mental and physical health is just as important as any career move or responsibility.