Helena Frith Powell > Quotes

“According to Dr Bouget, a nutritionist at the Bichat Hospital in Paris, the difference in diets between French and English women goes back tot he industrial revolution. 'The English working in the factories quickly lost touch with fundamentals such as fruit, and vegetables that are so central to the French diet even today,' he says. 'England changed its habits very quickly and became a fast-food nation, eating chips and drinking too much alcohol.”
― Helena Frith Powell

“better dead than ugly. And don’t French women know it.”
― Helena Frith Powell, Two Lipsticks and a Lover: A Year in Suspenders

“The thing you have to remember about France,’ she says. ‘Is that women are still oppressed by men and that women defend themselves and get what they want by seducing men.”
― Helena Frith Powell, All You Need to Be Impossibly French: A Witty Investigation into the Lives, Lusts, and Little Secrets of French Women

“But his new friend is younger than me, voluptuous, has long dark hair and, most scarily, works in the wine industry.”
― Helena Frith Powell, All You Need to Be Impossibly French: A Witty Investigation into the Lives, Lusts, and Little Secrets of French Women

“whether French women get lonely. This fierce competition must get tiresome. Don’t they ever want to call a truce?”
― Helena Frith Powell, All You Need to Be Impossibly French: A Witty Investigation into the Lives, Lusts, and Little Secrets of French Women