The World Motivation
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.
“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.”
— Ruth Handler · Adult
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.
I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.
I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful.
It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing.
The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else.
For all adults who haven't had a very rosy childhood, the first thing they will tell you is that they want to give their child everything that they did not have. That's something that has stuck with me.
What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing their emotions in real time every waking hour.
If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.
Most people have to learn the words to the National Anthem before they sing it. I learned these words when I was a child in elementary school, so this is something that's been embedded in me ever since I was an adult.