Natalia Vodianova

I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.

My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it.

If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.

New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

I didn't really realize that writing... would be fun and people would pay you to do it. Being an astronaut is a glory profession, and so is writing, in a way.