Paulina Porizkova

“I have worked every day since the age of fifteen, supporting not only myself, but also helping a sizable family when needed.”

“I used to think the word 'feminist' reeked of insecurity. A woman who needed to state that she was equal to a man might as well be shouting that she was smart or brave. If you were, you wouldn't need to say it.”

“From Kevyn Aucoin, I learned about the power of eyebrows. He was an eyebrow freak, and rightly so because there's nothing in your face that changes you more. You can quite visibly lift your eye with a higher-placed eyebrow, or if you thicken or thin it.”

“I have now spent over a year trying to figure where in the workplace I belong.”

“My name is Paulina Porizkova, and I am a feminist.”

“Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, and Linda Evangelista - those models got bunched together. I was always asked to be bunched in there, but I didn't want to be part of the herd. The only one I really had a problem with, though, was Naomi.”

“באמריקה, נראה היה שגוף האישה שייך לכולם מלבד לעצמה. המיניות שלה הייתה שייכת לבעלה, דעתה על עצמה הייתה שייכת למעגלים החברתיים שלה, והרחם שלה שייך לממשלה.”

“אף פעם לא ממש אהבתי לדגמן. אנשים מזועזעים כשאני אומרת שאני אוהבת את הכסף ושונאת את העבודה, אבל זה לא מאוד יצירתי לעמוד מול מצלמה כל היום.”

“אני לא מאמינה בדיאטה, כי גם כשאני עולה קצת במשקל, זה תמיד הולך בדיוק למקומות הנכונים... כמו השדיים שלי.”

“Reading is, hands-down, my favorite activity.”

“I will continue to be intelligent, I vowed, no matter how beautiful I become.”

“People want you to be beautiful and shut up. When I paint or play music, they'd rather not know about that.”

“My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.”

“After I finished working for Estee Lauder, I stopped being a professional model. I decided to never again advertise something that I don't actually use. I only sign up for things that I truly believe in.”

“I'm against all of us looking homogenous, where there's only one kind of a template of a person.”

“I was fired by 'America's Next Top Model' on my birthday.”

“Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.”

“Modeling sucks.”

“When I model I pretty much go blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.”

“I always hear, 'Oh, she's really beautiful.' I'd die to hear, 'Oh, she's really smart.' I'm not as dumb as I look.”