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
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.
I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.
I'm a ham. I always like to answer spontaneously.
In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.
Nobody should get married at 17.
A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.
I like to repaint rooms, to redecorate. My dream would be to have pieds-à-terre in various places.
In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left hand leads directly to the heart. I find it a very poetic idea. And thats why I only wear nail polish on my left ring finger.
Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal.
Some of us are born with a sense of loss. It is not acquired as we grow. It is already there from the beginning, and it pervades us throughout our lives.
And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.
I was fearless. Wild horses couldn't stop me.
Cats are so interesting - endlessly fascinating.