“I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family...” — Carre Otis Quote

“I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn't work. I didn't have a lot of other options of making money other than modeling.”

“Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.”

“I've learned to surround myself with women who lift me up and leave me feeling nurtured rather than drained.”

“Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

“Well, I've never dropped the word 'eh.' That's still at the end of my sentence, replacing the question mark.”

“It used to be that one poet in each generation performed poems in public. In the twenties, it was Vachel Lindsay, who sometimes dropped to his knees in the middle of a poem. Then Robert Frost took over, and made his living largely on the road.”