“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.

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.

I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn’t willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. .. That was all wrong.

You know what’s the sexiest thing of all? A little mystery.

I’ve always been a health fanatic.

I was a bigger-than-life persona before I was anyone in my own mind.

What they say about footballers being ignorant is rubbish. I spoke to a couple yesterday and they are quite intelligent.

Utopia exists only in one’s childhood life.

Sharing a moment with kids can often transport you back to your childhood.

Since I was a little girl there’s probably only been a handful of days I haven’t had a guitar in my hand at some point, even if only for just a minute.

Childhood decisions do not have to define you.

Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them – certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go.

Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

All grown-ups were once children but only few of them remember it.