A biography for Lee Radziwillhasn’t been written yet.
“I like people like Andre Malraux, Edmund Wilson, Willa Cather, Robert Graves, Erik Erikson, and Francis Steegmuller.”
“Onassis told me. He begged me to come to the wedding.”
“Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven't are either liars... or narcissists.”
“When I was married, I didn't work. When I had my children, I didn't work. But before that, I'd work for Diana Vreeland at 'Harper's Bazaar.'”
“The most important thing, I've found, is to be self-reliant.”
“When I was young, I used to think that everyone should die at 70.”
“Marriage is an extremely difficult relationship.”
“New Yorkers are obsessed with youth and eternal youth and then their careers and making money.”
“My childhood taught me nothing... zero.”
“There were so many things I couldn't do when my brother-in-law was president.”
“There's a McDonald's in the Louvre.”
“I don't like dining rooms. I think they have too much structure and are too formal.”
“Paris is life-enhancing for all those reasons we know and all those words that have become so banal.”
“It is difficult for someone raised in my world to learn to express emotion. We are taught early to hide our feelings publicly.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There is something to be said for being older - and memories.”
“My ideal evening is to have dinner with one person or a few persons, and then be in bed by 11.”