“I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’”

Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.

If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.

So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.

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

We need to stop telling [women], “Get a mentor and you will excel.” Instead, we need to tell them, “Excel and you will get a mentor.

I tell people in their careers, ‘Look for growth. Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where you feel that you can have a lot of impact.’

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.

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.

Angry people attract angry people and live in an angry world and this validates their opinion that the world is angry.

I don’t care WHAT the say about me, as long as it’s not the truth.

If you asked me, ‘What do you want to say?’ it would be, ‘Love yourself more.’

Even people you hate deserve opinions. And sometimes they’re going to have better ideas than yours. Keep an open mind to everyone.

I’m not out burning bras, but I’m very opinionated about women owning their power.

It’s not easy that everything you do, everybody has to come in and critique it and give their opinion. Sometimes it does help me and sometimes it hurts me as a person. That’s life. I have feelings.

The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.

When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.