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. Lee Radziwill Read Quote
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. Lee Radziwill Read Quote
It is difficult for someone raised in my world to learn to express emotion. We are taught early to hide our feelings publicly. Lee Radziwill Read Quote
I think there’s nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can’t imagine a totally idle life. Lee Radziwill Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Lee Radziwill Read Quote
I think there’s nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. Lee Radziwill Read Quote