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Television speeded everything up.
I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.
I did not think this doll could ever be this huge.
I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful.
Barbie always represented the fact that a woman has choices.
It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing.
We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.
It took us three years to even come close to catching up with the demand a little bit.
They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.
The doll had an adult shaped body, the thing that I had been trying to describe for years, and our guys said it couldn't be done.
Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult world around them. They would sit and carry on conversations, making the dolls real people.