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" Without women to nurture in this world, how do - how do men get by? How do children get by? How does society get by at all? "

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" I'm a hard worker, very driven, and have never expected anything to come easily. My yoga, a great rejuvenator, helped me to live down my image - this sex symbol thing. It helps me connect with myself. "

" The whole sex-symbol thing is part of what I do as an actress. It's a kind of character I play. It's part of me, but not the whole me. "

" I don't feel like, unless I have a boyfriend or somebody to march down the aisle with for the fifth time, that I'm 'Oh, poor me.' I'm not going to go running out desperately looking, making myself crazy and thinking that, without that, I'm nothing. "

" I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies, but you can't buy love. "

" I couldn't stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand? "

" I'm far more ready to go with the flow now because I am more accepting of myself. "

" There's a duality in every man and every woman. "

" Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel. "

" I find clothes so constricting! "

" You can't fake listening. It shows. "

" We try to do too many things that used to be in the men's domain, and we try to do them like men's. I'm a prude - I guess you can tell that - but I think, 'Why would you do that?' "

" My father was Bolivian, which makes me half-Bolivian. It's where I got some of my exotic features and certainly my skin tone. "

" Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict. "

" My family was very conservative, and I had a traditional upbringing. I was not brought up to be a sex symbol, nor is it in my nature to be one. The fact that I became one is probably the loveliest, most glamorous and fortunate misunderstanding. "

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" Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do. "

" I take a multivitamin, I take extra C, I take chondroitin and glucosamine for my joints, I take calcium for my bones. And by the way, weight-bearing exercises can help ward off osteoporosis and yoga helps ward off arthritis. "

" We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise. "

" Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina. "

" I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states. "

" I am 5 ft 6 in, and at my peak, my vital statistics were 37-22-35. I didn't even think about my weight - but now I work hard at keeping healthy. Fortunately, my husband Richie is as much of a fitness buff as I am. "

" The mind can also be an erogenous zone. "

" Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. She's revolutionary; she's a warrior. "

" It seemed like a wonderful honor to have the Film Society of Lincoln Center screen 'The Films of Raquel Welch.' It shows a lot of a variety in what they've chosen; it kind of runs the gamut of my film career. "

" I have a very, very good life. I'm grateful for all of my friends, my family and the life that I have, and the possibilities in my future. "