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“I think the best people, the ones who have reached the highest plateaus as human beings, are those who have known a great deal of adversity and have dealt with it and then moved ahead.”
― Robin Gerber, Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her — Discover the True Account of Ruth Handler and the Ever-Iconic Barbie

“We were developing a principle with the music box that we tried to stick with for the rest of our toy career,” Ruth explained. “If you develop a basic mechanism or a basic concept, you develop one or two or three items around that concept at the initial introduction, and then year after year you add new products around the initial concept.”
― Robin Gerber, Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her — Discover the True Account of Ruth Handler and the Ever-Iconic Barbie

“Ruth and Elliot’s unique partnership established many of its patterns in those early days. She had an optimistic view no matter the situation and kept Elliot’s spirits up. She had a boisterous adventurism that pulled him along, and he had a quiet, steady, unwavering love for her. At the end of their workdays, there was much to talk, share, and dream about.”
― Robin Gerber, Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her — Discover the True Account of Ruth Handler and the Ever-Iconic Barbie