Grace Kelly

Grace Patricia Kelly (12 November 1929 – 14 September 1982) was an Academy Award-winning American actress. She became princess consort of Monaco in 1956 when she married Rainier III, Prince of Monaco. Thereafter, she was commonly referred to as Princess Grace.

Quotes

• Personally, I wouldn't go anywhere important without my own favorite Hermès black bag... I have my jewelry with me in case something happens and I suddenly have to dress up. For me, going out without that purse would seem almost like going out naked. Well, almost.
  • Kelly (1954) attributed to her in: Charlotte Chandler (2005) It's Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock: A Personal Biography. p. 212 : Kelly had mentioned this to Hitchcock during the preparations of the movie Rear Window.

• I certainly don't think of my life as a fairy tale.
  • Kelly (1956) as cited in Editors of People Magazine (2007) The Royals: Their Lives, Loves and Secrets. p. 62

• For a woman, forty is torture, the end. I think turning forty is miserable.
  • Kelly (1969) in interview with William B. Arthur. Cited in: James Spada (1988) Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess. p. 280

• To create harmony in the home is the woman's right and duty.
  • Attributed to Kelly in: Tom Tierney (1986) Grace Kelly: paper dolls in full color. p. 17

• The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.
  • Attributed to Kelly in: Robert Andrews Ed. (1987) The Routledge dictionary of quotations. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books. p. 209

• Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.
  • Attributed to Kelly in: Paula Munier (2004) On Being Blonde: Wit And Wisdom From The World's Most Infamous Blondes. p. 78

• The frantic life of today has swept up women to the point where... they feel that there is no time for this vital natural function.(breastfeeding) I have many duties and obligations of state along with my husband, but my family comes first.
  • The Milwaukee Sentinel Princess Puts Motherhood First Jul 17, 1971

• (when children can watch without embarrassment their mothers breast feed brothers and sister) They realize the wholesomeness of sex and its naturalness. They don't put sex in the wrong proportion.
  • The Milwaukee Sentinel Princess Puts Motherhood First Jul 17, 1971

• I love walking in the woods, on the trails, along the beaches. I love being part of nature. I love walking alone. It is therapy. One needs to be alone, to recharge one's batteries.
  • The Milwaukee Sentinel Princess Grace finds relaxation in her gardens Jan. 1, 1981

About Grace Kelly

• Grace Kelly's apparent frigidity was like a mountain covered with snow, but that mountain was a volcano.
  • Alfred Hitchcock in the 1950s, cited in: Michael Johns (2004) Moment of Grace: The American City in the 1950s. p. 24

• I didn't discover Grace, but I saved her from a fate worse than death. I prevented her from being eternally cast as a cold woman.
  • Alfred Hitchcock cited in: William Shurtleff, Lawton L. Shurtleff (2005) The Shurtleff and Lawton families: genealogy and history. p. 450

• I could have married her!
  • Senator John F. Kennedy in 1956, looking at press coverage of Grace Kelly's wedding. Recounted by Gore Vidal and cited in Sarah Bradford's America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (2001).

External links

• Grace Kelly on IMDb