We know when we use the full talents of our population we're more productive. And we know that when people really feel like they can have flexible lives, they're better employees.

It's hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.

Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.

When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.

Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.

I believe we need affordable child care. I believe we need flexibility. I believe we need institutional reform and public policy reform.

When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands.