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

" 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. "

" 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 believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes. "

" It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled. "

" I've always said if what I'm going to create doesn't look good on everybody, I'm not going to do it. "

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

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

" Beauty is being comfortable and confident in your own skin. "

" 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. "

" People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears. "

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

" I had never seen 'Vogue.' I didn't read fashion magazines, I read 'Time' and 'Newsweek.' "

" There are some people who have helped to advance me and other girls, but the fashion industry is always behind popular culture. They think they understand the zeitgeist. They don't know anything about the zeitgeist. "

" People talk about the miracle of birth. No. There's the miracle of conception. I did IVF, but nothing happened. So I began to think of adoption, and then I got pregnant. It was definitely a miracle. "

" I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic. "

" I tell all my younger friends, 'Don't be afraid of change. That is when you truly see what your destiny is.' "

" I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do. "

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

" I don't love eating meat. I really only like chicken and fish. "

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

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

" When my daughter Zulekha was born, I was at the pinnacle of my working life as a model, and I pulled myself in two trying to cope with being both a mother and a career girl. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm against a signature look, as that can be very outdating. But having said that, I also know my best qualities, so I'm not going to foolhardily give away my power. "