Latest Iman Abdulmajid Quotes from Interviews

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• The child must come first above all else. And pace yourself every day. There is quite a lot you will have to give up.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Children, Giving Up, Pace

  Source: us.hellomagazine.com

• Make sure your decision to have a child is based on the need to share your life completely with another little human being and not because of some personal need for validation as a woman.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Children, Validation, Decision

  Source: us.hellomagazine.com

• The one thing you learn as you get older is that the body will do what the body wants. All you can do is try to guide it a little.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Trying, Body, Want

  Source: us.hellomagazine.com

• I'm quite insufferable about fitness, I suppose. I think it's really important, though I'm not a body nut.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Thinking, Nuts, Important

  Source: us.hellomagazine.com

• The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important. The thing is, I suppose, a younger person may not correctly divine the right time, because of lack of life experience, so the older woman may have the advantage of truly knowing if it's right or not.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Commitment, Knowing, Giving

  Source: us.hellomagazine.com

• There is no age better than another.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Age

  Source: us.hellomagazine.com

• People might want to think, "We don't need it," but you know, we can't stop it. It's a movement, which means that it's moving, whether you like it or not, it's going to move.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Moving, Mean, Thinking

  Source: time.com

• For me, diversity whether you think of it as race or gender, it's not a trend, it's a human movement, it's a human feeling, it's a human desire.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Thinking, Race, Diversity

  Source: time.com

• The one thing I know for a fact - some days are bad, some days are okay, and I'll go with it. If it's bad, I stay in and ride the wave and somehow, God gets me through and I'm fine. Dealing with grief doesn't work from one person to the other, it's so personal.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Grief, Facts, Wave

  Source: time.com

• My worst year. The only thing that I know for a fact now is that if it's really a bad day, then I draw the curtains, and I lay in bed. There is no way of dealing with grief. And I have no idea. This year I had double of them, my mother and my husband. I just take it one day at a time.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Mother, Husband, Grief

  Source: time.com

• There's a lot that I haven't put up there since my husband passed away because then it would be grief everyday. I have to fight within myself at times and ask, 'how do I go through the grief and find a light, even a glimmer of it?'

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Husband, Grief, Fighting

  Source: time.com

• I think it came out of the fact that I'm a very personal person who lives a very public life. It's the only thing that I thought people would want to hear, and it's never about just being inspirational.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Thinking, People, Just Being

  Source: time.com

• Men can get jobs from one country to another, they can get in. But the people who always fell through the cracks were women and children, especially when you are displaced. I've always said, 'I am the face of a refugee.'

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Country, Jobs, Children

  Source: time.com

• I came from a background where I was very poor growing up but I have never known poverty. My parents worked hard and they went to bed hungry, but they fed us. Then my father became an ambassador, so I ended up being driven by chauffeurs. And then we became refugees. After that, I looked at it through this "glass" of to have and have not, and at the end of the day, who actually helps, who actually steps up, who is there for you.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Growing Up, Father, Glasses

  Source: time.com

• The relationship I have with Bethann [Hardison], it's so unique. It's based on trust. But most importantly, Bethann is the one who will call on me if I'm doing something wrong. That's a very specific relationship.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Unique, Ifs

  Source: time.com

• If you are an activist, you have to stay active on a daily basis.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Activist, Bases, Active

  Source: time.com

• That to be an activist, you have to stay active. For me, it's profound; it's not something you choose to do every five years because it's chic to say it.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Years, Profound, Chic

  Source: time.com

• Bethann Hardison has been my collaborator, my closest friend, we've gone through starting businesses, losing businesses, kids, divorces, marriages, and she was my maid of honor when I married my husband, David Bowie. And she's still such a part of my life. This is the person when it's totally dark, outside and inside, this is the person I would call.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Husband, Kids, Divorce

  Source: time.com

• Pulling off a zebra-print dress can be challenging for some.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Zebras, Challenges, Dresses

  Source: www.elle.com

• My father taught me how to be a parent and gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Father, Men, Parent

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• My saving grace was that I always knew when to leave the party.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Party, Grace, Saving

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• When 9/11 happened, 12 of our neighborhood firemen were killed. I looked around at the country that had adopted me and I became an American.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Country, Fireman, Neighborhood

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I come from Somalia. We start working young, and we understand that kind of life. I would be bored to death not doing anything creative.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Bored, Creative, Would Be

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes. Looking good is a commitment to yourself and to others.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Believe, Commitment, Vanity

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Night, Married, Cooks

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com