I'd like to be the first model who becomes a woman.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

In 1974, the modeling world changed. Jerry Ford and my lawyer negotiated the deal for the first exclusive contract in modeling history.

I don't spend much money on clothes; I never did.

Avedon wouldn't let me put wax between my teeth like I usually did.

I had always broken the rules.

I became a specialist at comedic one-liners.

I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be.

I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers.

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

I'd like to be the first model who becomes a woman.

Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors.

Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.

No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!

Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.

That's the mistake women make - you shouldn't see your makeup. We don't want to look like we've made an effort.

The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor.

A lot of modeling is how much crap you can take.

There are plenty of beautiful girls who don't photograph well.

I discovered myself!

When I went back to modeling, nobody knew how to deal with a 46-year-old model!

I had 30-something years' experience in modeling, which is rare.

We need a new religion.

Fashion is what you’re offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.

If the accident of genes has put you in a place where you can be a role model, then be somebody!

Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence.

Fashion is what youre offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.

Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.

Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be.

Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help.

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.

We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.

The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor.

Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.