“Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didnt really like the idea of my name being Raquel.”

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It’s when the mind catches up with the body.

I inherited good skin from my mother, and I stay away from soap, which dries it out.

It’s necessary, at some point, to destroy your beauty.

You can’t fake listening. It shows.

For a woman to be considered a celebrated beauty is not exactly a bad thing. I think we have to say that in all reality.

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

My body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live.

Just as you maintain your home, your car, your garden, you should look after your greatest gift: your body.

Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. She’s revolutionary; she’s a warrior.

I think that women should be decorative.

I COULDN’T stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch – understand?

There aren’t any hard women, only soft men.

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

As far as I’ve been alive, women have always been more or less the symbol of sexuality rather than the male. We don’t see the naked male body, as the symbol of sex.

Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I’m proud to be Latina.

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn’t bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can’t buy love.

There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.

In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack–the direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.

A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.

The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.

Great moments are born great oppurtunity.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.