Quotes from Iman

We all want what every girl wants: to look fabulous while we're out there ruling the world.

I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.

When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.

Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.

As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.

I don't love eating meat. I really only like chicken and fish.

You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.

It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.

I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.

My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.

I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.

I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage.

I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.

I would rather Google other people than Google myself.

I am so far more secure and more grounded and more know who I am than when I was in my 20s.

When my daughter Zulekha was born, I was at the pinnacle of my working life as a model, and I pulled myself in two trying to cope with being both a mother and a career girl.

I have no intention of ever writing beauty tips on how to make an African-American nose look slimmer or Asian eyes look bigger. That's degrading. Asian eyes are what's beautiful about you and what makes you different.

I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.

The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.

I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.

Life is too short not to have pasta, steak, and butter.

There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.

I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.

I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.