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

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" I realized I was an attractive older woman who never wanted to settle down. "

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

" I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist. "

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" The single biggest lesson I learned was when a hire isn't working out fire them fast. My biggest mistakes, and where I've seen the worst results, were when I gave someone too many chances, or let a situation drift on for too long because I couldn't bring myself to terminate it. "

" Anyone who has worked with me knows that I am extremely action-oriented. I'm all about making things happen. "

" I have a low tolerance for people who complain about things but never do anything to change them. This led me to conclude that the single largest pool of untapped natural resources in this world is human good intentions that are never translated into actions. "

" 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. "

" If I ran the world, I would find a way to bring the wealth of human good intentions and corporate good intentions together - to activate them collectively into shared action against shared objectives that produces shared hard, tangible results. "

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

" I love the unknown. "

" 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. "

" I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values. "

" I realized relatively early on that I had no desire to be a mother whatsoever. I actually love children, but specifically other people's. "

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