Alice S. Rossi Quotes

You can be this super-successful woman who's smart and effective but still feminine. When I worked in finance, I didn't always think that was possible.

I'm very fortunate. My husband is hugely supportive, and he is very happy getting on with his career.

I support my wife. I want her to have a career. I want her to be happy, to have success at what she does.

I think it's possible to be a great mother and have a successful career. I like that more women are doing this.

I don't feel that my marriage has anything to do with my career. It never hampers anyone's career in the film industry.

I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.

I will always have a career. I believe in working. I don't believe that taking care of your house and children is enough for a woman. You don't feel complete.

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

Women are running companies, serving as the human resource director of companies, and helping employees solve problems. Women are doctors, lawyers, teachers, sales managers, marketers. They handle problems in the workplace by day and manage their families by night.

When I started Donna Karan, people weren't really accepting the idea of the working woman.

There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.

The tendency is to think if you are a professional woman, it's because you've turned your back on the traditional side. The tendency is not to recognize that we can excel as professionals without giving up our identity of being mother, wife and homemaker.

To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.

I've been so fortunate to work with so many successful women who are moms as well.

To young professionals - and particularly women - looking to advance, it is imperative to keep your life in balance.

It's depressing that ambition and feminism have become almost dirty words for working women. But, there is no reason that they should be and, increasingly, I am struck by how the next generation is challenging conceptions of what it means to be successful at work.

I feel career women should avoid getting married.

Any woman in any career has to think about when they have children, if they want to have children, and how it's going to affect their career.

So many women now in China are entering the workforce and also taking up very important positions CEOs, for example. The problem for many such women now is how to balance all the different kind of responsibilities that they take on and that they want to take up. They have to balance family and work and maybe kids. Chinese woman really have a strong desire to do that. They want to grab a hold of all these things. They are willing and able. But there is the challenge of how to keep the balance.

Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment-and freely choose one, or the other, or both.

My children are babies and my husband has scarcely half an hour in 24 to give me.

My husband is very supportive and is there for the kids, especially when I'm in projects such as The Color Purple.

I absolutely would categorize myself as one of successful professional females. I think you can be successful and still be extremely present in a healthy life.

By giving women training to sue a company for a 'hostile environment' if someone tells a dirty joke, we are training women to run to the Government as Substitute Husband (or Father). This gets companies to fear women, but not to respect women. The best preparation we can give women to succeed in the workplace is the preparation to overcome barriers rather than to sue: successful people don't sue, they succeed.

I very seldom said no, and I was aided and abetted by my husband, who realized that the one thing I could do was to be a very good actress, by his note.