Carolyn Mackler's Quotes

Everything you do to other people affects them, and how you treat people affects them.

I miss CDs. I miss listening to a whole album, even the lame songs that sometimes grow on you.

I think that being bullied is a shameful experience.

My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.

Prior to being bullied, I was a very footloose sixth-grader. You know, I was quirky, I was creative - I really felt good in my own body. And when I was bullied in seventh grade, my self-esteem tanked.

Every tub must stand upon its bottom.

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

I'll be the first one to tell you that I'm not the most casual person.

My view is that you have to take risks. Not everything is going to work out, but it's sort of the fun of fashion, right?

I feel like there is an underappreciation for ball gowns. You see them on the runway, but they rarely ever get worn, so there is something special and unique in getting to wear these creations; it's wearable art.

I mean, that was a throwaway thought, because my focus was - my intent and my focus was to never go public.

I'm not used to saying no to this man on any level.

I had said no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him about his saucy language. It had never gotten to this level until I came back.

I mean, they're threatening - my career is over. You know, everything I've worked so hard. I've worked extremely hard since about 17 years old, you know, as a White House intern on up.

I was put in a position with a man that, whenever he would call me at work or at home, work-related, he would say jump and I'd say how high and I would jump.

I'm supposed to say, Bill O'Reilly, that's immoral - click - and then walk back in and book his A block the next day and have a fine day and everything be kosher? I don't think so.

We had an eyeball-to-eyeball agreement at a restaurant before I came back that, if I came back, he would never talk to me that way again or I was simply saying no.