“In school, nobody could pronounce my name. They just called me Rocky.”

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 no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.

French people are Italian people in a bad mood.

I try to identify myself with the atoms. I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.

I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.

Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.

The name of a district or a commissionerate should be what the country and the world identifies it with.