Quote by Steven Johnson

I began my career as the switchboard operator at 'Rolling Stone.'

— Chris Connelly

Plenty of successful women started either as an unrecognised grafter or as a bit of decoration to the side of the screen.

— Ulrika Jonsson

When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.

— Lynda Obst

I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial…

— Kay Granger

I started out as a camera operator. I was doing news, and I was doing sports - baseball games and football games. And I…

— Kathleen Kennedy

Women had been on the verge of taking over the world-the Western world, anyway. Then some sexist pig in Silicon Valley invented the cell…

— John Sandford

My mother worked at the telephone company during the day and sold Tupperware at night. Evenings, she took classes when she could at University…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Public ‘career feminists’ have been more concerned with getting more women into ‘boardrooms,’ when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms,…

— Laurie Penny

Early on in my career, when I was working at an advertising agency, I went to a very senior-level meeting and I distinctly remember…

— Laurel J. Richie

'Women on Board' provides a roadmap for high-performing women leaders to join high-performing boards. It is a must-read for every sitting board director, man…

— Sandra E. Peterson

“In just about every industry, “office work” for women meant secretarial jobs and typing pools. Even in creative fields, such as book publishing, advertising,…

— Lynn Povich

What I tell women who want to get on corporate boards is to get connected! Do volunteer work, network in business, join community organization…

— Debra L. Reed