Raquel Welch (born Jo Raquel Tejada; September 5, 1940) is an American actress and singer.
I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. . . That was all wrong.
As far as I've been alive, women have always been more or less the symbol of sexuality rather than the male. We don't see the naked male body, as the symbol of sex.
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.
Weight-bearing exercises can help ward off osteoporosis and yoga helps ward off arthritis.
There aren't any hard women, only soft men.
Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.
What they say about footballers being ignorant is rubbish. I spoke to a couple yesterday and they are quite intelligent.
I couldn't stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand?
Ive always been a health fanatic.
Im the antidote to Lindsay Lohan. I know she misbehaves terribly, but sometimes it just seems like its open season on her.
Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.
Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. Shes revolutionary; shes a warrior.
For a woman to be considered a celebrated beauty is not exactly a bad thing. I think we have to say that in all reality.
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.
In school, nobody could pronounce my name. They just called me Rocky.
I think that women should be decorative.
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 was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our 52 states.
It's necessary, at some point, to destroy your beauty.
Just as you maintain your home, your car, your garden, you should look after your greatest gift: your body.