I find clothes so constricting!

I've always been a health fanatic.

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.

It’s necessary, at some point, to destroy your beauty.

I couldn’t stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch – understand?

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.

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It’s when the mind catches up with the body.

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

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.

There aren’t any hard women, only soft men.