Lady Elizabeth Rosamund Taylor's Insights

When the news of this remarkable woman and actress's passing made its way around the world's media, it seems no one needed to be told who she had been. Her legend grew alongside the Hollywood film tradition - cat on a hot tin roof, Cleopatra, cowgirl, reveller, and so much more. For long years she was a coveted subject of discussion both in glossy magazines and the tabloid press. And why not - forever young, extravagant, with eight marriages to her name.

The lady's posture and coquettishness, which she maintained with honour to the very last hour. In an interview at the age of 72, she declared she would make no promise that she would not, if the occasion arose, marry for a ninth time. I appreciated how film critic Normunds Naumanis looked at the contribution and personality of Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011) in the supplement to the newspaper "Diena", collecting insights from her life. I offer a few of them and a few more I have selected that spoke to me particularly as a woman:

• Nothing worth having costs only one dollar.

• I have only slept with those I was married to. Are there many women who can boast such strictness?

• Boredom - the most self-demeaning death of love.

• You can be fat and be sexy. It all depends on how you feel about yourself - as a fat person or as a sexy woman.

• How strange - patience comes with age. The less time we have left to live, the more patient we become. It should be the other way around, shouldn't it?

• Alcohol - the best matchmaker in the world.

• There are two things I do perfectly - act and cook. Because both in acting and in cooking one must observe the same rule: do not over-salt.

• To become a legend, one must first die.

• One must take care of one's figure, and do you know what helps me? A photograph of Elizabeth Taylor attached to the refrigerator door.

• If a person has no visible flaws, you can be certain that their good qualities are exceedingly boring.

• You can be young and without money, but being old and without money is impossible.