Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said: Americans are too clean . . . I took no offense.
I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.
It's funny because I think that both France and Britain are known for their distinctive styles, and everyone says that France is so chic and elegant but I think, more than that, French women are renowned for dressing in what suits them.
You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular, are good at. There's still a sense that you need to keep some of the unknown because that's where the soul resides, or something.
Of course there are fat French women. There are fat people everywhere.
French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.
French women don't eat Wonder Bread.
French women love bread and would never consider a life without carbs.
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.
The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'