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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.

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

Lee Radziwill

Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.

Lee Radziwill

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

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

Lee Radziwill

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

Lee Radziwill

Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. It brings tears to your eyes.

Lee Radziwill

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.

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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.

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I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

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Decorating has always been my hobby.

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As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.

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When I was seven and we lived in New York, I ran away. I took my dog and started out across the Brooklyn Bridge... I didn't get very far... It's rather difficult to run away in your mother's high heels.

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

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

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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.

Lee Radziwill

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

Lee Radziwill

I'm obviously all for women's lib.

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.

Lee Radziwill

I don't like dining rooms. I think they have too much structure and are too formal.

Lee Radziwill

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

Lee Radziwill

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.

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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