“Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way – not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.”

Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.

Next time you’re about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, ‘My daughter has executive leadership skills.’

Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I’m pretty sure that would be a better world.

When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands.

When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a ‘good man’ before they are all taken.

A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.

Women need to shift form thinking “I’m not ready to do that” to thinking “I want to do that- and I’ll learn by doing it.

When you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.

Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it’s the biggest career decision you can make.

Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.

When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.

When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.

It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.

When people are really suffering, and we know they’re suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy.

The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men, so women don’t expect to achieve them, and that becomes one of the reasons they don’t.

We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.

Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

I was born to love you with every single beat of my heart. I was born to take care of you every single day of my life.

I spend more time with Gucci Mane or Birdman than 300, but all this is just family. Who cares about contracts?

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

If it is a joint return, we are instructed to print the given names of both husband and wife. But since some of the names that husband and wife give each other are hardly suited to print, we must proceed cautiously.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.