I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.'

I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties.

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?'

It's really a full-time job to manage our lives.

I feel that women have been neglected, unnecessarily neglected and mistreated personally by the fashion industry and shapewear in that entire category was a definite place that we were neglected.

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

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.