“I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.”

The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

I’m a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It’s a pretty dumb animal, mind you.

Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.

It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.

The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.

There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.

Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It’s not a question of clothes or makeup. It’s how she sparkles.

I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.

I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.

I don’t like to run. I don’t like to jump up and down. Being a big girl and having a bosom, I injure myself! It upsets me, I have to hold my two things. I just can’t jog, there’s something in the way.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.

Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.

A dog is faithful, a woman never.

You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you – and notice it, and be glad for it.

No matter what a woman looks like, if she’s confident, she’s sexy.

I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I’m from Miami, which wasn’t getting looked at at the time. Three, I’m Cuban. But now, I’ve made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.

You don’t have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.

I want my wardrobe to be full of good clothes, so that when I’m deciding what to wear, I don’t run out of options. I love shopping!

Personal life doesn’t affect my creative process. It just gives me more subjects to talk about. Basically whatever you put in your music is how you want people to view you.

It makes me think—what am I going to be like when I’m 65?

The best accessories a girl can have are her closest friends.

You know what they say, dress your best when you go to bed because you don’t know who you’ll see in your dreams.