Lee Radziwill

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 obviously all for women's lib.

I believe that without memories there is no life, and that our memories should be of happy times.

I always begin a room with the rug; it is literally the foundation of the space. I then go on to the furniture.

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.

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

Despite loving England and loving English gardens, I'm not a chintz person, never was. It's too cute.

I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something.

I feel like I'm in my own world: in the world but not a part of it.

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

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