Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it's the biggest career decision you can make.

Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.

My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can.

We need to talk more openly about mentorships and sponsorships. Women don't get the mentoring, and particularly the sponsors, they need to succeed as much as men.

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

we compromise our career goals to make room for partners and children who may not even exist yet

We have a problem with women in leadership across the board. This leadership gap - this problem of not enough women in leadership - is running really deep and it's in every industry. My answer is we have to understand the stereotype assumptions that hold women back.