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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.

- Raquel Welch

Love, Off, Buy, Boarding School

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.

- Raquel Welch

Love, Childhood Dream, Silk, Compromise

My father came from a country called Bolivia. He was of Spanish descent. I never went to Bolivia until I was 60 years old, but apparently when he was 17, he had already planned his entire academic curriculum so that he could graduate high school and enter college in the United States. That's how much he wanted to come to this country.

- Raquel Welch

College, Country, United, Descent

I'm not imperceptible to masculine charm, but, well, you know, I can flirt.

- Raquel Welch

Charm, Well, Masculine, Flirt

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

- Raquel Welch

Proud, Here, Citizen, Latinos

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.

- Raquel Welch

Yoga, Joints, Ward, Arthritis

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.

- Raquel Welch

Husband, About, Richie, Fortunately

I think it'd be wonderful if we could train young girls to be active in lots of ways and that they then wouldn't have to age at the same rate that they would if they were not more active. In other words, more physical fitness and not just the sporty kind, but the yoga, which is really important.

- Raquel Welch

Young, Other, I Think, In Other Words

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

- Raquel Welch

I Am, Husband, Understand, Unfaithful

Oh I had crushes on all my leading men, I think. Oh, you know who I really had fun with? In this movie 'Mother, Jugs & Speed,' I really liked working with Harvey Keitel.

- Raquel Welch

Think, Movie, I Think, Crushes

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?

- Raquel Welch

Society, World, How, Nurture

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?'

- Raquel Welch

Think, Like, I Think, Prude

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

- Raquel Welch

Myself, Go, More, Accepting

People do stop me and talk to me about something they saw that they loved. It is very satisfying, but I have my own opinions.

- Raquel Welch

Own, My Own, Very, Satisfying

I'm the antidote to Lindsay Lohan. I know she misbehaves terribly, but sometimes it just seems like it's open season on her.

- Raquel Welch

Sometimes, Like, Terribly, Lindsay

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.

- Raquel Welch

Career, Films, Seemed, Runs

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

- Raquel Welch

Some, Which, Certainly, Exotic

I was lucky that one of my first movies, 'One Million Years B.C.' was made in Europe by a British company. The Brits, and a lot of the rest of Europe, seemed to really love exotic women. The fact that I was American and exotic just made me more appealing to them.

- Raquel Welch

Love, Lucky, Brits, Exotic

People used to come knocking on my door saying, 'Your trouble is that you're a sex symbol who doesn't do enough sexy things.' I'd say to myself, 'You think that if you pressure me I'll fold.' But if I did it, all it would mean is that I sold out.

- Raquel Welch

Door, Symbol, Sex Symbol, Knocking

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.

- Raquel Welch

Other, Idea, Before, Instincts

I felt like, you know, my presence in the world of cinema had a different meaning than Meryl Streep... There was an impact that was made, but it wasn't the usual.

- Raquel Welch

Like, Meryl, Usual, Presence

Turning 60 was not a happy time. I didn't think 'I'm falling apart,' but I did re-examine my priorities.

- Raquel Welch

Happy, Think, Falling, Apart

I inherited good skin from my mother, and I stay away from soap, which dries it out.

- Raquel Welch

Skin, Away, Which, Inherited

I'd taken the bull by the horns by liberating myself and creating a career. It took guts - it was scary and chancy - but they discounted me as empty-headed: some little piece of fluff without any brain that happened to come along.

- Raquel Welch

Career, Some, Without, Little Piece

I knew my mother was - well, her ancestry dated back to John Quincy Adams, so she was totally not Latina. She was definitely whatever you call it - white bread, shall we say?

- Raquel Welch

Bread, Latina, Ancestry, Dated

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.

- Raquel Welch

Feel, Boyfriend, Aisle, Fifth

You can't fake listening. It shows.

- Raquel Welch

Listening, You, Shows, Fake

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

- Raquel Welch

Because, Come, Asked, Chicago

I've always been a health fanatic.

- Raquel Welch

Health, Always, Been, Fanatic

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.

- Raquel Welch

Very, Symbol, Became, Upbringing

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