We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.

There is clothing that is improper for a Christian woman.

I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.

It's really important for me to look good before a race. I definitely think if I feel I look good, it makes me feel more confident.

I guess because I came to it later in life, I realized, 'Oh, going to a fashion show is like going to the opening of Degas at the Met or going to see Swan Lake.'

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.

I'm not a sex symbol, at least in the conventional sense.

Francis "without having a specific feminist program…contributed to the feminizing of Christianity."2 French historian André Vauchez, in his critical biography of Francis, adds that this integration of the feminine "constitutes a fundamental turning point in the history of Western spirituality."3

In the many images of Mary, humans see our own feminine soul. We needed to see ourselves in her, and say with her, "God has looked upon me in my lowliness. From now on, all generations will call me blessed" (Luke 1:48).

When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.

The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!