Lee Radziwill Quotes

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Lee Radziwill

Profession : Celebrity

Birth : March 3, 1933

Marriage is an extremely difficult relationship.

Lee Radziwill

There were so many things I couldn't do when my brother-in-law was president.

Lee Radziwill

No, I never did hats. I didn't - never felt they were so becoming to me.

Lee Radziwill

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.

Lee Radziwill

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

Lee Radziwill

It is difficult for someone raised in my world to learn to express emotion. We are taught early to hide our feelings publicly.

Lee Radziwill

Onassis told me. He begged me to come to the wedding.

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When I was young, I used to think that everyone should die at 70.

Lee Radziwill

I never saw a play with my mother until I was 14, and then it was 'Hansel and Gretel.'

Lee Radziwill

My father, naturally, spoiled me when I was allowed to see him - flying to New York from Washington, alone, in those terrifying planes. He'd take me to Danny Kaye movies and rent a dog for me to walk in the park on Sunday - a different dog every Sunday - and then to have butterscotch sundaes with almonds at Schrafft's.

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I find it hard to read people's minds, my own children's minds even harder. But it all worked out, and I was blessed with two wonderful children.

Lee Radziwill

I've often thought - even though it's hard to give him even more credit than he has had - that Andy Warhol must have started a lot of 15 minutes of fame.

Lee Radziwill

I'm obviously all for women's lib.

Lee Radziwill

I like people like Andre Malraux, Edmund Wilson, Willa Cather, Robert Graves, Erik Erikson, and Francis Steegmuller.

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I don't know where this myth that I go to a lot of parties stems from. It's a total myth. I may go out to something special once a year.

Lee Radziwill

My ideal evening is to have dinner with one person or a few persons, and then be in bed by 11.

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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.

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

Lee Radziwill

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.

Lee Radziwill

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

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