The more we talk about kindness in business, the more we'll break through the hard structures that have defined business and alienated women from getting to the top.
Mary PortasI get up because there is just so much out there and you just don't know what's going to happen, that's the great thing.
Mary PortasI think we need to embrace feminism, we need to embrace all of the gifts women bring to the workplace.
Mary PortasSuccess is a balance thing, it's about work and play together, so we need to work on how we embrace that. The conversation we need to keep having is how women and businesses learn to embrace women having children.
Mary PortasI really, really do believe that the future of being successful in work is going to be about embracing all of those wonderful things women bring - empathy, collaboration, flexibility - all those wonderful feminine traits we've suppressed for too long.
Mary PortasWhen I first went on TV, to make you look like a successful woman you had to be ball-breaking. I remember looking at these shows and thinking 'I'm not sure that's me'. It seemed like you had to behave like a man - but I think that's all going to go down completely, that's not the way we're going to live.
Mary Portas