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.

Women challenge the status quo because we are never it.

We have to move from making good advertising, to making advertising good.

Out of discomfort comes greatness.

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

People love advertising in particular but they hate advertising in general.

The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action.

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

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

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

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

The purpose of computation is insight, not numbers.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time then I know it can't be much good.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

I'm a terrible Scrabble player.

You are not your body; you are not your brain, not even your mind. You are Spirit. All you have to do is reawaken to the memory, to remember.

If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.

The work I'm doing on 'Watchmen' is mind bending and physically just hard.

I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you, okay?

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left.