Eileen Ford

American women mean a great deal to me. They're such lost souls, particularly the women of my generation. And women need so much help. They never have anyone to turn to. I help them understand how they can look better, how to do this, do that, get a job. And they're very trusting. Like little lost kids.

I create a look, and I create a style.

Grace Kelly was a very commercial model; she had no interest in being a fashion model. None at all.

Most models are emotionally abandoned. They need me. I'm their mother.

I never worry about fat people worrying about thin people, because slender people bury the dead.

I can't add above 10, I can't draw a stick figure, and I'm tone deaf. So I had to be able to do something. I found that something was picking successful models.

The horrible thing about being me is that I have a very good eye about what people look like. Even me.

I'm afraid to go to sleep; I don't like to lose control of myself. I don't like chauffeurs, either. I like to be in charge of my own destiny.

I suppose you could say that I majored in men and minored in psychology.

None of the people I grew up with had identity problems. We all had perfectly marvelous lives.

I live in a wonderful world of make-believe. A world of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. A world of Winnie the Pooh and Edward Bear. Things like that. Wonderful things. Funny things.

Models are a business, and they have to treat themselves as a business, which means they have to take care of themselves and give up all the young joys.