I like to stand out and make a statement.

When I give talks like the one I'm going to give at the Changing Advertising Summit, one of the points I often make to the audience is that I'm not one of those speakers who stands in front of the audience and pontificates - everything I talk about I'm actually doing myself. I'm living it.

It took a woman to actually do something about the lack of women in creative departments.

My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.

Out of discomfort comes greatness.

There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.

Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my lifewas the day I realized that I know longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That's enormously liberating and freeing, and it's the only way to live your life and do your business.