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My mother was one of the most dynamic and brilliant women I have ever known. She was also mercurial and unfocused.

Mum was a big style icon for me: her natural sexiness and natural confidence.

My mother was a passionate, complicated, sometimes fierce woman.

My mother was a very wise and strong person.

Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years - I still don't want to because of that.

My mum is a lovely woman, so strong but so kind and compassionate. She brought us up to be proud, loving and forgiving.

Mum was very cool. Even though she came from a pretty affluent family, she was cool. She was really good, a very normal person.

There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.

My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy life. I adored her. She worked hard all her life, and she was the one who set my values. She was quite an amazing woman, although she wasn't tough at all.

My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.