There's a tremendous loss of talent to businesses who cannot make room for their employees to attend to family responsibilities. It really amounts to corporate waste: They hire really talented women and then lose them because they can't find ways to keep them productive and content the minute they can't "lean in."

I am convinced that this country is ready to have a woman in the White House, but I also think there's still a lot of hidden sexism.

The European problem is that it assumes that the minute a woman has a child, the mother identity subsumes the professional identity. Now she's the mother, above all, and we must give her all this time.

My husband has spent more time with our children than I have. I don't think they're better or worse off.

If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.

Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.

Believe it or not, we will actually be better and happier workers if we are allowed to be better parents. We might even rediscover our capacity for fun.