My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.

I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.

Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.

I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.

I made the things particularly because I wanted them to see the world.

My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.

When you begin your work, nothing exists. When it is finished it looks as if it just happened, spontaneously, effortlessly, convincingly. It looks as though it had been there all along.