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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"I had always broken the rules."

"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."

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

"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!"

"We need a new religion."

"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."

"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!"