Betsey Johnson quotes:

With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.

If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and her boyfriend likes the way she looks, she'll come back.

Making clothes involves what I like...color, pattern, shape and movement...I like the everyday process...the people, the pressure, the surprise of seeing the work come alive walking and dancing around on strangers. Like red lipstick on the mouth, my products wake up and brighten and bring the wearer to life...drawing attention to her beauty and specialness...her moods and movements...her dreams and fantasies.

Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.

I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.

If it hadn't been for the rise of the working woman's wardrobe, I never would have found the time to sneak a kid in.

I was a cheerleader for nine years!

It's just been so heartwarming to see my clothes on people in wheelchairs and people needing physical support.

A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.

I don't like to have time on my wall; it's too-in-your-face.

I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.

Hard times always lead to something great.

My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money.

Always have fun with fashion. Dress to entertain yourself.

Keep your sunny side up, keep yourself beautiful, and indulge yourself!

[In the 1960s]...you could take LSD but you couldn't wear a pantsuit.

Girls don't dress for boys....

There is an excitement about having nightmares.

I'm not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.

I hate to say it, but the truth is that the upscale line is where I get respect as a designer. The higher the price range, the higher the respect level from the industry, even though it's much easier to make a great $500 dress than a great $100 dress.

Just to see what a pink dress can mean to a woman, any woman, but a disabled woman, that's extra special and thrilling because they shouldn't be separated and their disabilities don't have to separate them in anyway.

Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they'd just walk around naked at all times.

You have to hold onto your fantasy.

I never wanted to join fashion industry or being another Donna or another Dianne. I made clothes that I wanted to wear. I would cut, I would sew and I would wear, and it made me to feel better.

I'm usually the sparkle in a closet full of conservative clothes. Either that or my customer has a closet full of my clothes and a few conservative suits from Calvin Klein. I think you've got to give a girl what's missing from her closet. If something jazzy, tacky or sexy is what's missing, I provide it.

Love is a disease of the heartin the end, there is no treatment curable and it might just kill you.

I never keep anything beautiful in the closet.

I couldn't live if I wasn't a designer.

When you're designing clothing, you really only have one point of focus, and that's the body. But home is fabrics and furniture and floors and natural light. If fashion is a planet, home is more like a universe.