Ruth Handler quotes:

I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful.

Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult world around them. They would sit and carry on conversations, making the dolls real people.

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.

Television speeded everything up.

Barbie always represented the fact that a woman has choices.

I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.

It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing.

The doll had an adult shaped body, the thing that I had been trying to describe for years, and our guys said it couldn't be done.