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" The most important thing to Ben and me was starting a family, so as soon as we got engaged, we booked Gurney's in Montauk - which is just a few miles down the beach from our summer home - as our wedding venue a full year and a half out, and then we immediately started trying to get pregnant. "

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" I think that life is difficult. People have challenges. Family members get sick, people get older, you don't always get the job or the promotion that you want. You have conflicts in your life. And really, life is about your resilience and your ability to go through your life and all of the ups and downs with a positive attitude. "

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" When I feel like the day is great? Pasta. When I feel like I want the day to be great? Pasta. It's just awesome. "

" I'm bad at hiding my emotions. "

" I think layering is key for fall along with a really colorful scarf to bring spiciness to the outfit. "

" I want to have an 'Eat, Pray, Love' experience where I drop off the face of the planet and move to Greece. "

" In the morning at home, I'm not functioning as an entrepreneur - I completely limit technology and any work-think - I'm functioning as a mom and a wife. "

" The more time goes by, the more things will happen to you in your life. And the ability to be positive throughout and look for the good in people, look for the good in situations - it's so important. "

" As a female founder and CEO, it is important to me to support other women as they build their businesses. "

" My contribution to Rent the Runway as the CEO is higher than the contribution of someone on my warehouse team, but my pregnancy is not any more important than the pregnancy of any single person who works at my company. "

" As a little kid, I would watch Oprah almost every day. "

" Founders are often great storytellers because they're in the business of constantly selling a dream against all odds. "

" I had this thesis that we had entered the experience economy. People were getting married later and starting to value experiences like travel over owning things. "

" Our company wouldn't exist and wouldn't be around without our warehouse employees and our call center employees. And these employees - not just at Rent the Runway but at tens of thousands of other companies throughout the country - are treated unequally. "

" We derive confidence as women from what we wear. "

" I think, so often, female cofounders are positioned in this competitive, catty way. It's just awful. It's not reality. "

" If your work isn't mission-driven or emotionally resonant to you, it will be very hard to maintain passion and focus over a long period of time, which is critical in entrepreneurship. "

" I'm an auditory learner, and if you put something into a song, I'll remember it forever. "

" It's amazing how much misinformation there is about pregnancy and how many myths are still ingrained into our culture. "

" We learn about MLK's 'I Have a Dream' speech. Take that same speech and put it in the voice of a woman. Would it be as inspirational? Would it have as much gravitas to it? "

" I'm totally obsessed with Italian food and Mexican food. "

" Be brave and take accountability for your thoughts and beliefs. "

" When you don't have to buy something, it allows you to try new things. "

" When choosing vendors for my wedding, I intentionally searched for women who were at the beginning of their own founder journeys. "

" I've always loved artists - creative, spontaneous, laid-back people - but I wasn't meeting these types in real life. So I figured that, given I run a technology company, I should also trust technology to help me find the love of my life. "