I've always said that I think one of the best and cheapest ways to become healthier and happier is through mindfulness exercises like meditation.

I'm much more creative when I've actually taken care of myself.

Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we are really powerful, we are going to be considered ruthless or pushy or strident - all of those epithets that strike right at our femininity. We are still working at trying to overcome the fear that power and womanliness are mutually exclusive.

I don't like the idea of [having] a thick skin. I think we [should] be more childlike.

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery.