Top 40 Mireille Guiliano Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Taking care of your mental and physical health is just as important as any career move or responsibility.”

— Mireille Guiliano

2. “We only have one body, and you have to show respect for it.”

— Mireille Guiliano

3. “Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don’t put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present.”

— Mireille Guiliano

4. “Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.”

— Mireille Guiliano

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5. “With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.”

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6. “French women don’t have too many clothes – a few good pieces that last for a while and are classic and timeless.”

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7. “There is no lasting glory in rapid weight loss.”

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8. “Learn to say no, with an eye to saying yes to something else.”

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9. “I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.”

— Mireille Guiliano

10. “The real reason French women don’t get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating and dieting, the obesity problem in France would be much worse than what has struck America.”

— Mireille Guiliano

11. “Just as established products and brands need updating to stay alive and vibrant, you periodically need to refresh or reinvent yourself.”

— Mireille Guiliano

12. “Expensive clothes with inappropriate or inexpensive shoes may send an unflattering message.”

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13. “French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.”

— Mireille Guiliano

14. “Since the pleasure of most foods is in the first few bites, eat one thing on your plate at a time, at least at the start of the meal when you can concentrate and enjoy the full flavors.”

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15. “If you believe you can shed pounds quickly by force of will and deprivation, you will in all likelihood not only regain the ones you lost, but add a few more besides.”

— Mireille Guiliano

16. “I’m not a great consumer. I always ask myself, ‘Do I really need that piece?’ I have friends who have 300 pairs of shoes; how would you leave the house in the morning?”

— Mireille Guiliano

17. “Wine is a living, breathing thing during its time in the bottle and in the glass. It is always changing, especially in the glass. A little oxygen can really open up and release the flavors in a complex wine, as well as mellow the rougher edge of immaturity.”

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18. “The memory of some bottles can stay with your for life. While the wine doesn’t have to be old and rare, a great old bottle can be like a time capsule, capturing in its flavors and aromas the time and place of its creation.”

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19. “French women know one can go far with a great haircut, a bottle of champagne, and a divine perfume.”

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20. “French women don’t eat Wonder Bread.”

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21. “Nothing but beauty and douceur.”

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22. “We women are so judged by the way we dress, and men are not. So style is part of developing your own brand.”

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23. “Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.”

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24. “In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.”

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25. “French women love bread and would never consider a life without carbs.”

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26. “I find it so unattractive when women wear sneakers with their business suits. I wear a nice pair of loafers or low-heeled pumps, and that’s that.”

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27. “Doctors recommend swimming for the heart, the back, the morale, and the waistline.”

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28. “Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman’s secret.”

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29. “A woman should wear fragrance wherever she expects to be kissed.”

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30. “I love my kitchen. For Manhattan, I have a rather decent-size kitchen, and it has an opening that gives out to the dining room, which has a window with a view of the city and in the distance the Statue of Liberty.”

— Mireille Guiliano

31. “You and I don’t have the same genetics, we don’t live in the same places, but we can have the same basic attitude – being comfortable in our skin.”

— Mireille Guiliano

32. “French women eat and serve what’s in season, for maximum flavor and value, and know availability does not equal quality.”

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33. “Of course there are fat French women. There are fat people everywhere.”

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34. “I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.”

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35. “Give us being and feeling over having any day.”

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36. “Once a day, take some ‘Beach Time.’”

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37. “When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.”

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38. “People are unhappy when they are on diets, because it’s ’don’t do this, don’t do that, do this, do that.”

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39. “Erica Jong believes “gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.”

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40. “I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.”

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41. “I’ve never been ambitious.”

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42. “Being and working in America, it’s very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it’s slow-moving and it’s not always good.”

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43. “One does not laugh because one is happy; one is happy because one laughs.”

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44. “For this reason, three months is the usual time to find your way. But you must enjoy the ride.”

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45. “The French, on average, sleep nine hours a day.”

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46. “Entertaining is an act of friendship and cooking is an act of love.”

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47. “Gastronomic boredom leads to lots of unhealthy eating. If you don’t make improvisation and experimentation part of your eating life, you are sure to find yourself in an eating rut.”

— Mireille Guiliano