A biography for Lee Radziwillhasn’t been written yet.
“Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. It brings tears to your eyes.”
“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.”
“I think grieving is the same for everybody that lost someone you love deeply. It's the same. You know, you're really no different than anybody else who's lost somebody they adored.”
“I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something.”
“One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically.”
“Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.”
“I'm constantly falling in love with objects, and they follow me around the world.”
“No, I never did hats. I didn't - never felt they were so becoming to me.”
“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 believe that without memories there is no life, and that our memories should be of happy times.”
“I don't know where this myth that I go to a lot of parties stems from. It's a total myth. I may go out to something special once a year.”