The pleasure of making things beautiful or useful involves your feelings as well as your thinking. When your original sketch evolves into a tangible, three-dimensional object, your heart is anxiously following the process of your work. And the love involved in making it is conveyed to those for whom you made it.

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

To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative impulse is always frustrating. And to be different means ‘not like this’ and ‘not like that.’ And the ‘not like’—that’s why postmodernism, with the prefix of ‘post,’ couldn’t work. No negative impulse can work, can produce any happy creation. Only a positive one.

When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.

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

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

I think with my hands. I design things to be touched-not for a museum. A piece is ready when it has the shape of something to cherish.