People think plus-size models don’t exercise – we do! But it’s about health, not forcing my body to be something it’s not meant to be.

The orchid is Mother Nature's masterpiece.

The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

I've got big hips and a big body. I'm double, triple the size of other models - and I embrace that - I own it.

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was dogs.

And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them

I believe when you’re stuck in one spot for too long it’s best to throw a grenade where you stand, and jump…and pray.

When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.

I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Before marriage man prays that god give him a wife, after marriage he prays that god save him from her.

Changes are not only possible and predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home.

You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.

Adversity defines true character.

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

The Beat thing happened when I was younger. I used to run away from home, inspired by the Beats, like in '64 and '65.