I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.

I've worked with Ed Bradley, Dan Rather and lots of different local news anchors.

A fundamental lesson on being fired: Never lie about it. People will know what you're saying is a cover-up for how you really feel - embarrassed, discouraged, and afraid.

We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don't like us. Women tend to worry about popularity; it doesn't matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay.

We have an almost desperate need for more women to run for office and for more women to really gut it out after they have kids and stay in their jobs and get to high positions in companies. We need women at the top more than ever. We need women's voices there because they are very different than men's voices and they bring a very valuable and necessary point of view to the table.

Women play into each other's weaknesses.

If we've seen one thing from Donald Trump, it's that he says one thing one day, and another thing another.