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.

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.

Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. Shes revolutionary; shes a warrior.

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

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

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.

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.