“He knew what I was when I married him. I have been working since I was seventeen. Homes and babies are all very nice, but you can't have them and a career as well. I intended, and intend, to have a career and Valentino knew it. If he wants a housewife, he'll have to look again.”

— Natacha Rambova

On her marriage to Valentino, p. 172
Madam Valentino: The Many Lives of Natacha Rambova (1991)

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