Gloria Vanderbilt
Gloria Vanderbilt
Gloria Laura Vanderbiltis an American artist, author, actress, heiress, and socialite. During the 1930s, she was the subject of a high-profile child custody trial in which her mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, and her paternal aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, both sought custody of the child Gloria and control over her $5 million trust fund. The trial, called the "trial of the century" by the press, was the subject of wide, sensational press coverage due to the wealth and notoriety of the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth20 February 1924
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you
There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone.
You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.
Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, form or narrative content - something we had not perceived before... and perhaps reveal something to you about yourself.
I don't like cold people at all. It makes me feel really insecure.
To be happy--one must find one's bliss
Have great, secret, big, fat hopes for yourself.
The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.
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.
I do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetite for life. 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.
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.
I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
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.
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.