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

Guilt management can be just as important as time management for mothers.

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.

Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.

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.

I wish I were strong enough to ignore what others say, but experience tells me I often can't. Allowing myself to feel upset, even really upset, and then move on - that's something I can do.

You need to feel that you're making a difference.