There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

We must be authors of the history of our age.