People, Nov. 20, 1972

Everybody has his own definition of getting old. To Brigitte Bardot, now a hardly senescent 38, it will be "the day I can no longer have the man I'd like." The Vogue magazine interviewer seemed a little shocked. What was Brigitte looking for in a man? "That he attract me physically." What about intellect and all that? "It is difficult for me to get interested in subsidiary qualities." Tenderness? "Tenderness is a concentration of all the habits and all the monotonies, to be avoided with care." After describing herself as "the most important...

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