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I'm not really a femme fatale.

I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.

I like peace and solitude and silence.

I hoped that, you know, France wouldn't mind about, you know, the wife of their president to having a job.

Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.

I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.

My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.

I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.

Carla Bruni