I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.

Women want to be free to choose from the same range of options that men take for granted. In our quest for equal pay, equal access to education and opportunities, we have made great strides. But until women can move freely and think freely in their homes, on the streets, in the workplace without the fear of violence, there can be no real freedom.

Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see.

You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.

You can't change t he wor ld f rom t he rear view mir ror.

I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs

People I work with are open to leadership that has a vision, but this vision has to be communicated clearly and persuasively, and always, always with passion.