I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.


As quoted in "The Doyenne of the Drawing Room" in The New York Times (23 August 1981).

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I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.

I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.