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.
I think that women should be decorative.
I inherited good skin from my mother, and I stay away from soap, which dries it out.
You can't fake listening. It shows.
Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina.
Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didnt really like the idea of my name being Raquel.