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" I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip.' "

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" Who would have thought that the girl who was forced to go to the hospital because she's so skinny would one day be called too fat? "

" I get so much mail from young women saying that they are so insecure when they look at me, but they don't realize all of the flaws that I have. "

" I love Boston; it's like Paris. "

" I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it. "

" I have a poverty demon. I'll ask my accountant if I can afford something, and he'll say, 'What are you talking about?' "

" I love being able to go to a store, let's say... a store like Topshop or Zara or maybe even Macy's, depends on what department, and not have to look at the price tag. "

" I wish I was harder; I wish I didn't care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more 'oomph' in me. "

" I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer. "

" I think we should be unapologetic that we excel - and look beautiful while doing it. "

" When I was a model, they called me 'Tyra;' now it's 'Ms. Banks.' "

" I'm always looking at how I can be atypical. "

" I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk. "

" I grew up wearing a uniform to school, and now I have my stylist come to my apartment and create outfits for me to wear. Otherwise, I'd never get dressed. "

" I think of dystopian as 'Mad Max,' as 'Book of Eli,' as the world is ending. "

" My freshman year, I ran for student class president and lost. The next year, I ran for student class vice president, and I won. "

" I just think, as a model, it's taught me to be a master of deception and illusion. "

" I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous. "

" I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?' "

" I wear my age with pride. "

" When I was a young girl, I lost a lot of weight over one summer - involuntarily - and was just really depressed and sad. There was nothing I could do to gain weight. I would look in the mirror and call myself disgusting every day. "

" I do look at 'Modelland' as a franchise. "

" Not wearing make-up? I can do it, and don't think twice. "

" Years ago, when I first started wearing hair extensions, I would get mail from young girls, or young girls would come up to me and they would say, 'Tyra you have the most beautiful hair, like I could never grow hair like that!' And I would say 'Child, this is a weave!' "

" When I went to Paris after graduating high school, I saw a model who was 12 years old without any supervision. That wouldn't happen in the acting world. "

" I'm a lover of fashion websites. "

" I don't think me walking away from modeling was scary for me. In hindsight, I think it was very risky, when you talk about risk. Because it paid the bills. "

" Whenever someone says I'm the next Oprah, I always respond, 'Child, there's only one Mahogany, and only one Oprah.' There are no others. "

" I tend to hang out with my friends in Los Angeles from high school. We know each other from back in the day. They still see me as just dumb Tyra. We have a strong bond. "

" I'm not led by money, because if that's the case, I can throw my name on everything and have a million-dollar company. "

" I went from being very popular and the head of the clique in the sixth grade to having, like, kid depression in the seventh grade. Not leaving the house. Not looking people in the eye... My body made me feel bad at everything. "