Brie Larson Quotes

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

Ultimately, mentorship plays such a big role in breaking directors that successful male directors tend to reach the helping hand to guys who remind them of themselves. We need more women directors so they can reach out to girls who remind them of themselves.

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

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

I'm from a generation of women that shattered the glass ceiling. We didn't wait for doors to open. The lesson I learned is that you need to open some doors for yourself in pursuit of career advancement.

When I started, there were very few women at the managing director level and very few who had families, which is something that was important to me. So it's not like, when I looked up, I could say, 'Well, that's who I want to be.'

I am not the first woman to multi-task. I am not the first woman to work and have a baby - there are many women who have done this before.

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

I have received so many letters, messages, emails, testimonies of women whom I meet in international conferences, wherever it may be, who tell me, 'It's great that you have balanced life and work so successfully.' I now think I have underestimated that, the 'role model' aspect of my life, I must say.

I've been very lucky to work in a newsroom where there are lots of strong, funny, clever women in senior positions.

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

As a working woman, thinking back to someone I'd want to see on TV growing up are women who can make something of themselves and their future.

It is critical to create opportunities to identify talented women in business, then support them to develop their confidence to aim for the boardroom.

I've been a medical and public health professional as well as a mother. I became skilled at juggling a number of priorities and competing interests. Like many other female leaders, I've tried to serve as a role model for the young women at my organization who are trying to balance a high-level leadership position and a family.

Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot of businesswomen that speak on there. I find them extremely inspiring.

Every entrepreneur talks about the passion you have for your work, and I think that's what's missing with a lot of women in business.

I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me afterwards, "I never envisioned myself being a director, since I've never seen women do it." But after seeing me, they can picture themselves directing, so maybe we'll see more female directors.

Most female CEOs have been more understanding than their male counterparts, of the stress that new mothers experience to 'do it all,' which often means, 'all by themselves.' Why? They've been there. They understand the policies needed to keep women in the workforce.

You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a big way.

Kids in college often look for mentors and role models to model their careers after, and women don't have the equivalent of a Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. I think it's a self-perpetuating loop.

I've had some very strong female role models, so I think that's an important thing.

Women can achieve power and purpose in whatever profession they pursue, position they hold or whether they are caring for their children full time.

I feel it is now my duty to speak to young women, to encourage them to have careers and, particularly, careers in science.

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.