If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father. Gloria Vanderbilt More Quotes by Gloria Vanderbilt More Quotes From Gloria Vanderbilt To be pregnant has been for me each time the supreme joy ... I was doing the greatest thing in the world without having to do anything -- all I had to do was be. Gloria Vanderbilt has-beens joy world I'm a ham. I always like to answer spontaneously. Gloria Vanderbilt ham answers To be happy--one must find one's bliss Gloria Vanderbilt bliss healing I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men. Gloria Vanderbilt men art thinking Even death is wonderful because, as Woody Allen says, we're not going to know when it happens. Gloria Vanderbilt woody happens wonderful A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. Gloria Vanderbilt mind dream fiction I believe in marriage and fidelity. Gloria Vanderbilt fidelity i-believe believe In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness. Gloria Vanderbilt light dark joy I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about. Gloria Vanderbilt age writing thinking Everything in life is elusive. Gloria Vanderbilt elusive life-is When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt? Gloria Vanderbilt why-me Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life. Gloria Vanderbilt magic want people I've resolved so many things in my life. I like the idea of showing that you can go through a lot and still be on your feet, still be working, and still be positive about life. Gloria Vanderbilt being-positive feet ideas Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal. Gloria Vanderbilt why-not suffering philosophy The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures. Gloria Vanderbilt fables stories animal One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance. Gloria Vanderbilt color real life I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected. Gloria Vanderbilt stars moon animal ...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny. Gloria Vanderbilt smile laughter love I'll always remain friends with men I've been in love with. Each one gave me so much, in so many ways. Gloria Vanderbilt been-in-love men way I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me. Gloria Vanderbilt fine design term
