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

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.

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.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.

If you want to know if I’m a Godly man, follow me home.

You can reinvent yourself as many times as it takes to feel at home inside.

I am nature taking its divine and natural course. I am homes being rebuilt after a tragedy. I am healing.

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

I’ve always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B’nai B’rith at our house.