[On the Barbie doll:] Her values, while somewhat Yuppified, are not so bad. Look at GI Joe. His only wardrobe is fatigues, he spends all his time trying to kill people, or getting his own innards splashed across the landscape. His big hobby is death.
I was big time into Barbie.
Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage.
Most little children's obsessions are robots and Barbie dolls. My obsession as a kid was the Versace house. I used to save up my pocket money to buy Versus shirts. I was that obsessed!
There are only two things you can do when you're dressed like Barbie Does Bondage; you can be embarrassed or you can be aggressive. Guess what my choice was.
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
When I was 12 years old, I read Nancy Drew mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys.
I don't like being under someone elses thumb. I'm very supportive of other female artists, especially those trying to make their own statement. . . trying to do what they want instead of being someone else's Barbie doll.
If there were mistakes, there were mistakes. But a man has to have a line of work, no?
I did a picture for the First Barbie doll box.
I became Vulnerability TED, like an action figure - like Ninja Barbie, but I'm Vulnerability TED.
Every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top. My mama, she told me don't worry about your size. She says boys like a little more booty to hold at night. Yeah I won't be no stick figure silicone Barbie doll, so if that's what you're into then go ahead and move along.
TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle.
You know I won't be no stick-figure, silicone Barbie doll
Where is Barbie?" The female shifter snickered and choked it off. "Is there a stripper pole?
Look at you! You look like Rangeman Barbie. You got a gun and everything. -Lula
I'm just a Ragetty Anne in a Barbie Doll World
Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.
I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.
Silena appeared out of the woods, her sword drawn. Her Aphrodite armour was pink and red, colour coordinated to match her clothes and makeup. She looked like Guerilla Warfare Barbie.