When I was being photographed, I always felt very much in my own skin. That’s probably one of the reasons why I enjoy being photographed. — Gloria Vanderbilt

I’m in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things, I think, on the inside, show on the outside. — Gloria Vanderbilt

I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don’t know anything about men. — Gloria Vanderbilt

I have a tremendous appetite for life; the phone rings and your whole life could change. — Gloria Vanderbilt

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better. — Gloria Vanderbilt

I lived in Europe until I was 9, really. — Gloria Vanderbilt

When anybody says, ‘Why me?’ Why is ‘me’ exempt? — Gloria Vanderbilt

I’m always in love. If it’s not with a man, it’s something else. I love beauty. I love the sky I see outside the window. There’s so much beauty in the world. — Gloria Vanderbilt

Some of us are born with a sense of loss. It is not acquired as we grow. It is already there from the beginning, and it pervades us throughout our lives. — Gloria Vanderbilt

I’m the girliest girl you are ever going to meet. — Gloria Vanderbilt

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It’s not based on real people. — Gloria Vanderbilt

A home is very, very important to me. But I do change things around a lot. — Gloria Vanderbilt

If you’ve never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you’re never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty. — Gloria Vanderbilt

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion. — Gloria Vanderbilt

If you have health, you have everything. — Gloria Vanderbilt

I can’t bear to look at Paris Hilton and all that. I mean, it really doesn’t grab me. I don’t think she’s interesting, and the sense of values seems sort of off–kilter. — Gloria Vanderbilt

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected. — Gloria Vanderbilt

I like to repaint rooms, to redecorate. My dream would be to have pieds–à–terre in various places. — Gloria Vanderbilt

You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you’re able to put one foot in front of the other. — Gloria Vanderbilt

The heart of another is a dark forest. — Gloria Vanderbilt

I think something wonderful is going to happen to me. Maybe tomorrow. The phone can ring and your whole life can change. — Gloria Vanderbilt

Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal. — Gloria Vanderbilt

I don’t categorize myself as an 85–year–old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who’s written an erotic novel. — Gloria Vanderbilt

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you. — Gloria Vanderbilt

And it came to me, And i knew what i had to have before my soul would rest. i wanted to belong–to belong to my mother. And in return–i wanted my mother to belong to me. — Gloria Vanderbilt

All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides. — Gloria Vanderbilt

I was fearless. Wild horses couldn’t stop me. — Gloria Vanderbilt

Nobody should get married at 17. — Gloria Vanderbilt

To be pregnant has been for me each time the supreme joy … I was doing the greatest thing in the world without having to do anything––all I had to do was be. — Gloria Vanderbilt

Even death is wonderful because, as Woody Allen says, we’re not going to know when it happens. — Gloria Vanderbilt

In anything there has to be dark and light. There’s a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness. — Gloria Vanderbilt

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written. — Gloria Vanderbilt

I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it indicates your destiny is chaotic. — Gloria Vanderbilt

When I was photographed, I didn’t feel I was acting. I just felt I was being photographed. It sort of taught me things about myself that I didn’t know and was trying to find out. — Gloria Vanderbilt

Everything in life is elusive. — Gloria Vanderbilt

Cats are so interesting–endlessly fascinating. — Gloria Vanderbilt

Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life. — Gloria Vanderbilt

I’m a ham. I always like to answer spontaneously. — Gloria Vanderbilt

I’ll always remain friends with men I’ve been in love with. Each one gave me so much, in so many ways. — Gloria Vanderbilt

I’ve had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does. — Gloria Vanderbilt

That is the best–to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny. — Gloria Vanderbilt

I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it’s called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me. — Gloria Vanderbilt