Gospel According to Coco Chanel

When you’re rational, they feel suspicious, then threatened. They start acting like a possum cornered in the back of garage, and soon the words man hater get bandied about and everyone is unhappy.

occasionally behaving as if she’d lost her mind, in the interest of reassuring the men in her life that she was irrational in a reliably feminine fashion.

One shouldn’t speak of oneself, or almost never. People should guess you.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything.”

A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.”