I would be better at my job if I were technical.

Knowing that things could be worse should not stop us from trying to make them better.

Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.

I lost my husband, and it's a horrific thing to live through.

When a woman is successful, people of both genders like her less.

Self-compassion is how we recover.

An ambitious and successful woman heads down a challenging career path with the thought of having children in the back of her mind.

Build your skills, not your resume.

I believe we need affordable child care. I believe we need flexibility. I believe we need institutional reform and public policy reform.

It's hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.

The more women help one another, the more we help ourselves. Acting like a coalition truly does produce results. Any coalition of support must also include men, many of whom care about gender inequality as much as women do.

A 2011 McKinsey report noted that men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on past accomplishments.

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.

My coworkers should understand that I need to go to a party tonight -- and this is just as legitimate as their kids' soccer game -- because going to a party is the only way I might actually meet someone and start a family so I can have a soccer game to go to one day!

Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.

In those same 10 years, women are getting more and more of the graduate degrees, more and more of the undergraduate degrees, and it's translating into more women in entry-level jobs, even more women in lower-level management. But there's absolutely been no progress at the top. You can't explain away 10 years. Ten years of no progress is no progress.

People who are underprivileged have more to grieve and have more to overcome.

I think we build resilience to prepare for whatever adversity we'll face. And we all face some adversity -- we're all living some form of Option B.

Every day is a gift.