“Weight-bearing exercises can help ward off osteoporosis and yoga helps ward off arthritis.”

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.

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Exercise is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind.

Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.