Iman Quotes
I started the cosmetics in 1994 after I stopped modeling, out of my frustration as a woman of color not finding what I needed.
Quotes to Explore
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I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!
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Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and move on.
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Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.
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At fashion shows, my brows often get bleached, and they've been dyed back much darker - like jet black, where you can't even see my skin. Sometimes with Just for Men! What a mistake. At times, the two brows aren't even the same color!
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I want to make shoes that a woman can walk in. That's kind of what they're made for.
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The North Korean landscape is strikingly beautiful in places. It could be said to resemble America's Pacific Northwest - but substantially drained of color.
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Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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What is really important for a woman, you know, even more than being beautiful or intelligent, is to be entertaining.
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I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.
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After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.
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A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.
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I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.
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And I'm telling you now the frustration
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One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.
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I keep active because I have not announced my retirement, because that is something that takes time and you have to plan it. Plus, it is something that the Dominican people expected.
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Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.
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I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.
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I started the cosmetics in 1994 after I stopped modeling, out of my frustration as a woman of color not finding what I needed.
