I am so proud and grateful to be my mom's daughter.

I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically.

I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.

At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics, but by eighth grade that has dropped precipitously.

He has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch.

We need women who are at the head of a boardroom, like at the head of the White House, at the head of kind of major scientific enterprises so that little girls everywhere can then think, you know what? I can do that, I want to do that, I will do that.

Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.