Blakely Quotes & Sayings

I got a call from the Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah had chosen Spanx as one of her favorite products in 2000. I had boxes of product in my apartment and I had two weeks notice that she was going to say she loved it on TV and I had no shipping department. — Sara Blakely

Can make you shudder and writhe without even touching your pussy. — Lauren Blakely

By now, legions of tireless essayists and op-ed columnists have dressed feminists down for making such a fuss about entering the professions and earning equal pay that everyone's attention has been distracted from the important contributions of mothers working at home. This judgment presumes, of course, that prior to the resurgence of feminism in the '70s, housewives and mothers enjoyed wide recognition and honor. This was not exactly the case. — Mary Blakely

We've all made mistakes. We've all done things we wish we hadn't. The goal is to learn, and to move on and try to live a life of no regrets. — Lauren Blakely

She was the only one he saw, the only one he ever wanted to see. — Lauren Blakely

Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as the swatter remained in view ... Permanent transformation had to be internal ... The habits of self discipline, as laborious and frustrating as they were to achieve, offered the only real possibility of keeping children safe from their own excesses as well as the omnipresent dangers of society. — Mary Blakely

I'm here because of a letter.
Not the kind with hearts and lipstick marks, but the kind that takes your breath away. I wanted it to have that effect on him, and so it was the story of how we fell in love told through our kisses. Both kisses we'd had and kisses I wanted to have, and places I wanted to kiss. Places like Paris and Amsterdam, along the river or by the canal, or Kauai under waterfalls.
It was an epic love letter, and it was all I'd ever wanted in my life-to feel that kind of epic love. — Lauren Blakely

Where I get my energy is: 'How can I make it better?' — Sara Blakely

You did learn something new. You learned to trust again. With me, — Lauren Blakely

Because it was mad love, crazy love, insane love.Because it was hard love, good love, true love.Because it was the real thing, and a love like that can't be stopped.Alove like that is inevitable".
"It lasts forever, for always, because of the love they have and the way they love. An how they learned to love together.Fierce and true. — Lauren Blakely

His attention felt more like an irrepressible gravitational pull than mere interest. — Blakely Bennett

it had started, to how it had — Lauren Blakely

Skippy Jon Jones picture book — Lauren Blakely

There is the easy way and there is my way. — Teresa Mummert

Solve this, pink-haired lady. — Lauren Blakely

But when you've been in love with someone who didn't love you, it really makes you protect your heart from anyone and everyone, — Lauren Blakely

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else. — Sara Blakely

The job description of mother is clearly in need of revision. As it stands, the shifts are 24 hours, for a period of approximately 1,825 consecutive days. The benefits are sorely in need of amendment: no vacations, no sick leave, no lunch hours, no breaks. Moreover, it is the only unpaid position I know of that can result in arrest if you fail to show up for work. — Mary Blakely

If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced. — Mary Blakely

It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable. — Sara Blakely

It wasn't as easy for others to accept the darker side of themselves. Most like to cling to the notion that hesitation still marked the presence of morality. Deep down we were all just selfish animals. We liked to take ... or be taken. — Teresa Mummert

A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium. — Mary Kay Blakely

Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers. — Sara Blakely

The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it. — Sara Blakely

Love is a fiction, a fable, an ode spun by poets and drunks, a fantastical tale told across one thousand and one nights, it is the genie in the bottle, it is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, it's the lie designed to seduce you. — Lauren Blakely

What stunned me was the regular assertion that feminists were "anti-family." ... It was motherhood that got me into the movementin the first place. I became an activist after recognizing how excruciatingly personal the political was to me and my sons. It was the women's movement that put self-esteem back into "just a housewife," rescuing our intelligence from the junk pile of "instinct" and making it human, deliberate, powerful. — Mary Blakely

Because, let's be honest, if you're going to stick a needle in your skin, you want to make sure you're not going to a butcher. — Lauren Blakely

One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never meet. — Mary Blakely

My training of cold-calling and everyone under the sun telling me no, and my keeping going, was a huge part of the first two years of Spanx. — Sara Blakely

We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends. — Sara Blakely

We are expected, somehow, not to offend anyone on our way to liberation. There's an absurd expectation that the women's movement must be the first revolution in history to accomplish its goals without hurting anyone's feelings. — Mary Blakely

Any man who is friends with a woman has taken the old imagination out for a stroll to Kissing Avenue, then Lovers Lane, then Fucking Street. — Lauren Blakely

My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them. — Sara Blakely

I didn't want women to walk out of the dressing rooms feeling depressed and wanting a cocktail. — Sara Blakely

That's the funniest thing of all about attraction. It can be so torturous, but you can look forward to it so much. It's an exquisite kind of torment. — Lauren Blakely

Love isn't a quilt. Love isn't patient, love isn't kind. Love is a game, a chase, a thrill. Love is wild and war-like, and every man and woman must fight for themselves. — Lauren Blakely

You'll all just have to accept that Wyatt Hammer kisses me like it's the only thing he wants to do in the whole world, and I couldn't resist him. — Lauren Blakely

We live and we love and we hurt each other. We don't always say the right thing, or do the right thing at the right moment. Sometimes we need space, and distance, and sometimes words fall from our lips that shouldn't have been said. [ ... ] And we always hurt the ones we love most. If we didn't love so love so much, it wouldn't hurt so much. — Lauren Blakely

I've been known to watch porn from time to time."
"Just from time to time?" I ask.
She shrugs naughtily, a little I've-got-a-secret look in her eyes.
"It's okay. Tell the doctor. Masturbation is normal. Don't be ashamed. — Lauren Blakely

When I'm bored or tired of being blonde, I'll throw on a wig. It's a lot less of a permanent way to change your look, and I have about 10 - all different colors, shapes, bobs, long hair, short, feathered. — Sara Blakely

I like giving you what you want."
"You're what I want. All of you. — Lauren Blakely

I wish she'd say she's ready. But I won't push her. I can't. She needs what she needs right now, even though she's the only person who ever truly needed me. — Lauren Blakely

I have no need to suck up to you, Clay. You're already putting out for me. — Lauren Blakely

No one has ever looked at me like he does. I doubt anyone ever will. — Lauren Blakely

Why do men like a woman to give up control? What is it about the lack of control that men like so much?" "It's not that they like a lack of control. But a man wants a woman who gives herself to him. He wants a woman to melt into his arms, to get aroused from a kiss on the back of her neck, — Lauren Blakely

He taps his chest with both hands. "Let me introduce you to me. I'm the guy who wants you back. Badly. — Lauren Blakely

You're the only woman I want to love. — Lauren Blakely

You're not supposed to be attracted to your best friend like this. That's not how it works. I'm probably going to have to get checked into a facility to deal with the amount of attraction I have for you. I'll ask them to remove it, and they'll say 'sorry, sir, it's spread across your entire body and we can't take it out'. — Lauren Blakely

You've got to visualize where you're headed and be very clear about it. Take a polaroid picture of where you're going to be in a few years. — Sara Blakely

Because as much as I want to spend the entire weekend in bed, I also want to get to know you. Because I like talking to you as much as I like touching you. Is that enough? — Lauren Blakely

Sometimes I wish I had a lower IQ so I could enjoy your company. — Ilsa Madden-Mills

You were falling for me, and I was falling for you, and we were falling together into the land of the fallen. — Lauren Blakely

Yum." She smacks her lips and mimes making a cat claw. She leans into me and whispers, "I am so going to be visiting him one-handed tonight in my fantasies. — Lauren Blakely

Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceilingone afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it. — Mary Blakely

Thank you, Spanx. Because of you, my postbaby body can mold like Jell-O into a svelte, sexy little shape . . . for a few hours anyway. Your ability to lift and tuck simply takes my breath away, literally! May you continue to do God's work and be the progenitor of the muffin top. THANK YOU, SARA BLAKELY!! Sincerely, All Women. — Jen Hatmaker

Everything in our society is so purposeful. — Sara Blakely

Shockingly, the hot, hetero, single manny is like a red panda. Rarely spotted in the wild. — Lauren Blakely

I should let go. But I don't. Because I can't help but notice he has that clean and freshly showered smell that makes any woman want to lean in and lick a guy's neck. — Lauren Blakely

Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech. — Sara Blakely

He's heart-stoppingly handsome, and he has this brooding sense about him whenever I see his pictures. As if he rarely cracks a smile, so when he does you know it must be special ... — Lauren Blakely

That lucky fucking inanimate animal. "I want to grow up to be a stuffed crocodile. — Lauren Blakely

Divorce exposes absolutely ever buried assumption about marriage ... how a husband's sense of entitlement and a wife's sense of duty turned the principle of 'our money, our kids' into the reality of 'his money, her kids. — Mary Blakely

He dropped to his knees, pushed up her skirt, and spread her legs open. "I have unfinished business with your pussy," he growled, as he dragged a finger across the outside of her panties. — Lauren Blakely

The marquess held the weapon out, as formally as if he were passing a sword.
Soberly, Ned accepted it. He placed the sacrificial citrus on the table in front of him, and then with one careful
incision, eviscerated it. He speared deep into its heart, his
hands steady, and then cut it to pieces. Jenny allotted herself one short moment of wistful sorrow for her afterdinner treat gone awry as the juice ran everywhere.
"Enough." She reached out and covered his hand midstab.
"It's dead now," she explained gravely.
He pulled his hand away and nodded. Lord Blakely took back his knife and cleaned it with a handkerchief.
Jenny studied the corpse. It was orange. It was pulpy. It
was going to be a mess to clean up. Most importantly, it gave her an excuse to sit and think of something mystical to say - the only reason for this exercise, really. Lord Blakely
demanded particulars. But in Jenny's profession, specifics were the enemy. — Courtney Milan

Raising boys has made me a more generous woman than I really am. Undoubtedly, there are other routes to learning the wishes and dreams of the presumably opposite sex, but I know of none more direct, or more highly motivating, than being the mother of sons. — Mary Blakely

I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it. — Sara Blakely

Funny, how we try to plan for things, and anticipate perfect moments, but then life comes and punches our plans in the mouth, leaving us with big fat lips. — Lauren Blakely

Casey. You're going to need to stop questioning me," he said in a commanding tone. "That's your first lesson. The next one starts now. — Lauren Blakely

I want you on my balcony. — Lauren Blakely

I thought I was leading this kiss, but I'm not anymore, because he's claiming me, tracing his tongue across my top lip, then nipping at the bottom lip, then kissing me so deeply and with so much heat that I shudder. — Lauren Blakely

When I was a child, my father used to encourage my brother and me to fail. At the dinner table, instead of asking about the best part of our day, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something to tell him, he would be disappointed. When we shared whatever failure we'd endured, he'd high-five us and say, 'Way to go!' The gift my father gave us by doing this was redefining what failure truly meant. — Sara Blakely

In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal. — Mary Blakely

If it's that a drink, no. If purple snow globe is a secret code word for something naughty, I'm game. — Lauren Blakely

I can't keep rappelling down the cliff face of this untamed desire for her. I've got to reel it back in, stuff it into a trunk, lock it up, and then toss the motherfucker to the bottom of the ocean. — Lauren Blakely

Just remember this, for what it's worth. I adore you. Absolutely, completely, with everything I have. I will give you everything, all my heart, all my love, anything you want. You mean more to me than I ever imagined. Being without you is hell. — Lauren Blakely

But Alexandra Petrovic did not become the most powerful politician in Adria by taking no for an answer.
"You seem to think that I'm asking, Ms Blakely. Which I'm not."
I stop and turn. "And you seem to think that you scare me, Ms Petrovic. Which you don't. — Ally Carter

I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them. — Sara Blakely

If I were a rock star, I'd have Taylor Swifted him and written one of those anthemic I don't love you anymore songs. — Lauren Blakely

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art. — Mary Kay Blakely

The air between us crackles like it always has, like it has its own energy or frequency. One of us is going to bend. One of us is going to break. — Lauren Blakely

Behind every beautiful thing is a world of pain. — Ilsa Madden-Mills

Let's see what my options are," he said, then slid open the drawer. Holy shit. It was like a fiesta of sex toys. "I think they might be mating in there. — Lauren Blakely

There is a hidden blessing in the most traumatic things we go through in our lives. My brain always goes to, 'Where is the hidden blessing? What is my gift?' — Sara Blakely

By the way, do you know what they say about this woman in business? — Lauren Blakely

Blakely, isn't it?"
"Ye-" His voice squeaked and he started again. "Yes, Your Highness."
"When we met, you couldn't stop staring at my breasts." His face went pale, as if he seriously thought he was so subtle no one would notice. "Make sure you get an equally satisfactory look at my backside as you leave. — Kiera Cass

Happiness. I believed few people ever achieved it. — Ilsa Madden-Mills

I'd never forget how it felt to say those words. To be in our place. In love with you, in love with us, in love with our secret, with the island we were building, keeping out the whole wide world. There with you, I was ... safe. — Lauren Blakely

Reeve kissed like he was made for kissing her, as if he'd been custom-designed by the gods of kissing to touch her lips, and taste her mouth, and drown her in kisses as she'd always wanted. — Lauren Blakely

Hangovers are fun, said no one ever. — Lauren Blakely

Any guy who thinks he automatically knows how to please a woman is a conceited ass. Every woman is one of a kind. Every woman has her own titillations and turn-ons. — Lauren Blakely

There's only one cure for weirdness."
"Anal? — Lauren Blakely

Patience, little one. I want to take my time with you. — Teresa Mummert

Gestures and actions, were the foundation of any great love. And that's what he was to her. He'd shown her that she didn't have to change for any man, that the right man would love her for who she was. — Lauren Blakely

I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying. — Sara Blakely

I feel like money makes you more of who you already are. — Sara Blakely

They'd done plenty of wild things in their time together, but Reeve's favorite and Sutton's too was when he asked her to beg for it. She always did, and he always made sure she was rewarded. — Lauren Blakely

Money is fun to make, fun to spend and fun to give away. — Sara Blakely

Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art. — Sara Blakely

I cut the feet out of my control top pantyhose to wear under these white pants and that was the ah-ha moment that started Spanx. My own butt was my own inspiration! — Sara Blakely

In fact, for dessert, I'll skip the rest of the cake and take one order of sexy single dad, please. — Lauren Blakely