Lela Quotes

#1. I am thrilled to be working with Lane Bryant on this collaboration. Designing apparel women can feel confident and beautiful in has been a long-standing pillar of the Lela Rose brand, and we are looking forward to bringing our designs to Lane Bryant's inspiring base of customers.

Lela Rose

#2. I traveled with my mother, Lela, and there was never enough money. I always had to roll down my silk stockings and carry a doll when we bought train tickets so I could go half-fare. If we had $3, we always figured how to tip for the trunks and still eat.

Ginger Rogers

#3. You're an incredible woman, Lela. I would battle a thousand Terrademons to reach your heart. But I cannot challenge or defeat an enemy that's already dead. I cannot fight for a heart that doesn't want to be won.

N.D. Jones

#4. For my kids, I cook everything. We have dinner every night, pretty much, just the four of us: my husband and me and our two kids.

Lela Rose

#5. I'm glad that I ran track in high school. I think it paid off.

Lela Rochon

#6. As you get older, it's always a process of self-love, learning how to really do that for yourself instead of trying to find it outside yourself.

Lela Loren

#7. Love is still something I'm learning about.

Lela Loren

#8. I think the biggest lesson is the common one that gets in the way of most of us as artists - there are these messages in society that if you aren't hitting certain metrics, then you're not successful and you're not valid.

Lela Loren

#9. I get a lot of letters from prisoners. They say things you can't imagine.

Lela Rochon

#10. There are people who went to prison, died, gave their life so Obama could be president of the United States.

Lela Rochon

#11. Do the dishes while you're cooking.

Lela Rose

#12. The hands really show signs of age.

Lela Rose

#13. I am - since I was a child - curious about everything. I like to look at how things work and why people are the way they are.

Lela Loren

#14. Despite the ever-increasing responsibilities, there are no promotions in motherhood. You'll never get an annual review followed by a fat bonus and a healthy raise.

Lela Davidson

#15. Don't confuse what you want and what you need.

Sarah Fine

#16. My husband's a man's man, and he does guy films, and there's rarely any female parts in them, period, but we have some projects that are for me that we hope to do in the near future.

Lela Rochon

#17. I'm learning how to have a healthy form of love, how to make it lasting rather than just have it be a flash in the pan.

Lela Loren

#18. I have always wanted to own a homemade ice cream shop!

Lela Rose

#19. I love to cook and entertain.

Lela Rose

#20. My mother always taught me to wear clothes for myself and not to follow trends as trends will end!

Lela Rose

#21. I wrapped my arms around his neck, drawing him closer. Oh God, it was so out of control, but in this really sweet, beautiful way. I never thought I'd be allowed to have that feeling. I thought it had been completely beaten out of me, but there it was, untouchable and clean.

Sarah Fine

#22. I bike around New York City as a way of getting everywhere I need to go.

Lela Rose

#23. Style is an attitude; a trend is just another thing to follow.

Lela Rose

#24. My father has fair skin, and my mother is dark, and I'm kind of cafe au lait.

Lela Rochon

#25. The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.'

Lela Rose

#26. I'm a good skin, natural makeup kind of gal.

Lela Rose

#27. Designing bridal is perfect for me, because black is my least favorite color, if you could call it a color.

Lela Rose

#28. I really don't like take-out.

Lela Rose

#29. My culinary wardrobe is the same as my biking wardrobe, just no shoes.

Lela Rose

#30. If you splurge, do it on an item that's fun, because you'll feel good whenever you put it on.

Lela Rose

#31. I was a tomboy growing up, and an athlete.

Lela Rochon

#32. I think what inspires me or what keeps me inspired is my curiosity.

Lela Loren

#33. I love to ask people questions. I want to know everything about them, even things that may be seemingly socially inappropriate.

Lela Loren

#34. Focus on what's next, not what came before.

Sarah Fine

#35. The thing is, if you're going to take the artistic path, you sort of have to make peace with the idea or the possibility that you may never make any money or get any acknowledgment or accolades for what you're doing.

Lela Loren

#36. My face and my body are my product.

Lela Rochon