“Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift ...” — Karen Bender Quote

“Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job interview.”

“Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got through it; second, how we can share it. The experience doesn't stay trapped within us, unspoken, curdling - instead, the art of arranging and transforming it reduces the burden. It no longer belongs to only you.”

“I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.”

“Skinny jeans and an extra big t-shirt. Ugh, I cannot stand that. It looks like an idiot: it's just proportionately wrong. And the super, super, super, super, super, super, super skinny jeans. I don't think you can get anything done when you're wearing clothes that tight.”

“I just feel so sexy when I'm salsa dancing and wearing the salsa clothes. I love dancing, and the salsa is just so sexy.”

“I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.”