Corin Tucker Quotes

We launched our #WomenWhoWork initiative to show the world what today's modern, professional women really look like. They're invested in their careers, but they're also passionate about priorities outside the office.

I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.

I want my girls to grow up learning that it is important their mum worked like a man.

We live in one of the most complex ages for young, professional women.

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.

For me, one of my life's mission is to disrupt these dated concepts of what it really looks like and means to be a working woman. The expression 'working man' is never heard in conjunction. But people still talk about this sort of 'working woman,' and there's a bit of negativity to that connotation.

I feel like a lot of women have been questioning their role in their workplaces and society, opportunities that they may have missed or haven't spoken up for.

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition!

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men.

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

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

Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

I've never had a problem in a male-dominated sector. Results speak for themselves.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home; that a woman should not aspire to achieve more than her male counterparts and, particularly, not more than her husband.

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've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

We have a very long way to go to really penetrate the power structure. Until that happens, you will not see stability among the workforce, among women - in the workforce among women.