Ms. Berry has landed the coveted September issue of the bible of the fashion world.  Halle's rocking an abrupt blunt cut brown wig and looking fabulous on the cover of VOGUE's September 2010 issue.

We've got pics and quotables from her cover story about motherhood, her love of nudity, marriage, and more when you read on...

On how much motherhood means to her:

"I have a new focus that's outside myself," she says, "and that feels really good, in your 40s, to have arrived at that place. I'm actually lucky and grateful that I waited until an age when I can really be present. I saw my mother in her early 20s having two little kids, and I don't think she enjoyed me at two the way that I enjoy my daughter. She didn't have that luxury." She gets a funny, thoughtful look on her face. "Nature has got it all wrong: When you are younger, it should be harder to get pregnant, and as you get older it should be easier. When you are so ready, you can't do it to save your life. And when you are 21, you are so not ready, but you are ripe as could be. The eggs should become more developed the older you get, not die slowly from the day you're born. That's one thing God got wrong."

On her biggest fear for daughter Nahla:

"I worry that this whole insatiable appetite for celebrity children will somehow adversely affect Nahla. I don't think it's fair, and I don't think it's safe. How will she grow up, having been objectified like this for most of her whole young life? Already they write things about her: Oh, she looks like this; oh, she looks like that. But nobody knows her. They just pick her apart on a very superficial level. How will I be able to help her keep that in perspective in this town?" To that end, she recently rented a house in San Francisco to spend time alone with Nahla away from the glare of celebrity. She's considering moving there full time, "to have her grow up in a place that is less of a fishbowl."

On her love of nudity:

"If the world wouldn't persecute me, I'd take nude pictures every day of the week."

On whether her vow to never marry again still stands:

"Yes," she says. "I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle. I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right."

"I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do. And I'm not willing to stay somewhere where I am really not happy. And I am not willing to pretend I am for the kid's sake or so that I don't have to go through another public humiliation."

On her relationship with ex-boyfriend and baby's daddy Gabriel:

"It's just that you realize you are not meant to go the distance with everybody," she says. "We were meant to bring this amazing little person into the world. And I think that's why we came together. And because of that, we are going to be together forever, all three of us. We are a family until we are not here anymore."

You can read much more of her interview over at Vogue as they discuss her brutal workout with Gunnar Peterson, the new women's homes she's remodeling, amd more.

A few gorgeous outtakes:

In a Vera Wang corset and skirt and Lorraine Schwartz earrings

In an Armani blue velvet gown and Fred Leighton jewels

In a Marc Jacobs velvet dress, Fred Leighton jewels

In an Armani velvet dress and Lorraine Schwartz jewels

Nice.

Photog: Mario Testino