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" I wanted a bronzer so I could look like I just came from Ibiza everyday. "

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" There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend. "

" 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. "

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

" I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that. "

" When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth. "

" There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important. "

" 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. "

" I would go to cosmetics counters and buy two or three foundations and powders, and then go home and mix them before I came up with something suitable for my undertones. "

" We never do Valentine's dinner, because everybody, they look. On Valentine's, imagine me and David going to a restaurant! Like, everybody's going to say, 'Did they talk? Did they hold hands?' Twenty years. We've been married twenty years! "

" People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving. "

" We all want what every girl wants: to look fabulous while we're out there ruling the world. "

" Nobody has ever said to me that I was pretty, 'til I met Peter Beard. "

" We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture. "

" The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them. "

" We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house. "

" At the end of the day, a 34B doesn't give you self-esteem. "

" On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs. "

" Looking good is a commitment to yourself and to others. Wigs, killer heels, Pilates, even fillers - whatever works for you, honey. "

" If I feel frustrated in a situation, I take a deep breath and walk away. "

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

" The people who are the most successful in life are not stopped by fear. "

" There are highlights when you become irreplaceable as a model, like when you become a muse to designers. They look at you differently; you're not a coat hanger for hire. "

" I was a very nerdy child. I never fit in, so I became laboriously studious. "

" 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. "

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

" I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple. "

" 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 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. "

" Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good. "

" I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old. "