Francoise Giroud Quotes

• Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions.

  Francoise Giroud

  Sex, Rights, Mediocre

  21 Copy quote

• You can domesticate your body, but you can't domesticate your face - even by having a lift or having your nose bobbed. A face bears the reflection of our nature, which in the beginning is veiled by the attractiveness of youth. But as soon as youth begins to go, everything written on the face starts to come to the surface, and pretty soon it's engraved there. No landscape can equal a human face that's been molded by its own owner.

  Francoise Giroud

  Nature, Reflection, Landscape

  15 Copy quote

• Nothing is more difficult than competing with a myth

  Francoise Giroud

  Difficult, Myth, Competing

  Françoise Giroud, Claude Glayman (1974). “I Give You My Word”

  7 Copy quote

• Advisors are generally brilliant theoreticians but wretched practitioners.

  Francoise Giroud

  Brilliant, Advisors, Wretched

  8 Copy quote

• Desire can be as fragile as it is sudden.

  Francoise Giroud

  Desire, Fragile

  5 Copy quote

• Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore.

  Francoise Giroud

  Dresses, Planning, Fit

  8 Copy quote

• Being a professional ... is making fewer mistakes than others, as few as possible.

  Francoise Giroud

  Mistake, Fewer

  8 Copy quote

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin