I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.

If somebody can do something 80 percent as good as you think you would have done it yourself, then you've got to let it go.

If we can put a man on the moon, we can make pantyhose comfortable.

I'll mix a lot of things. I'll wear a Temperley dress with flip flops, or I might be in head-to-toe Gucci and have on a ring that I got from a gumball machine for 50 cents.

Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States.

There is a hidden blessing in the most traumatic things we go through in our lives. My brain always goes to, 'Where is the hidden blessing? What is my gift?'

I didn't want women to walk out of the dressing rooms feeling depressed and wanting a cocktail.