My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty.

I've never felt any particular desire to be married.

I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.

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.

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.