Lee Radziwill

One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically.

I think grieving is the same for everybody that lost someone you love deeply. It's the same. You know, you're really no different than anybody else who's lost somebody they adored.

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

Marriage is an extremely difficult relationship.

I have a great curiosity to see new things, but not to own them. It's very peaceful this way, and one of the nice things about getting older.

When I look back on my life, it seems nearly everything of interest happened in little more than one decade - dramas, tragedies, major events, pleasures, my close friendships with artists and political figures, the lovely places where I lived in England and New York, the trips to Europe, visits at the White House.

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.

Paris is life-enhancing for all those reasons we know and all those words that have become so banal.

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.

I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life.

If I see an orchid that's fantastically expensive, I'll buy it. It's worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.

I've always wanted to be an actress. At school and in college, I did some things. But then I married, and then I had children, and then there were the political years.