“Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.”

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.

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.

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.

Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.

The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.

Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.

If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.

If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.

I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

What if I told you everything was going to be okay – but what if in my own, soft heart, I really needed to hear it too?

You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.

We can change the course of events if we go to our knees in believing prayer.

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don’t imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

Believe that He loves you. He wants to help you Himself in the struggles which you must undergo. Believe in His Love, His exceeding Love.

What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.