48 Quotes by Carmen Dell'Orefice

We’re all works of art in progress.

If you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?

There’s always a boyfriend. Whatever else I have to give up on, I won’t give up on love.

The money I’ve earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.

I’m a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity.

I didn’t marry to have children. I married to have a relationship, and I was blessed with one child. I was an only child, too – my mother was smarter than most women today; she just had me.

I don’t live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.

I’m loath to do interviews. What comes out is generally not what I meant or thought I was saying or thought they were asking.

We are oceans apart. My mother had a very difficult life.