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" I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans. "

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" I'll be truly happy when we're not counting the number of ethnically diverse models on a fashion runway or campaign, when having a representation of the entire human race is the norm and not an exception. "

" That is something that my mother instilled in me at a very young age - to know my self-worth. And I have had times again and again in the fashion industry where all of that was tested and I rose to the occasion because I was told that I am worthy and I should be able to walk away from something that is not worthy of me. "

" I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile. "

" I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage. "

" I would rather Google other people than Google myself. "

" I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way. "

" The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40. "

" Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met. "

" The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience. "

" I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14. "

" The day you settle for less is the day you will get less. "

" My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again. "

" As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie. "

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Life Is Too Short

" I thought at 46 years old, I've been removed from the fashion industry for 10 years. I couldn't possibly write a model's book. That's for a 20-year-old. But I could say what I want to say without chastising the industry. "

" Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien. "

" I can't stand my legs, for a start, and you rarely see me in skirts. "

" I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before? "

" I started the cosmetics in 1994 after I stopped modeling, out of my frustration as a woman of color not finding what I needed. "

" I speak five languages besides mine. I went to school in Egypt because girls weren't allowed to go to school in Saudi Arabia. It's very restricting, especially for girls; we're not allowed to go anywhere. "

" When I lived in Egypt, we always wore kaftans. I had cashmere kaftans from Halston. You put on a kaftan in your backyard, and it's like you're in Ibiza. "

" My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960. "

" I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim. "

" My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles. "