Both men and women react negatively when women negotiate on their own behalf. A man can just negotiate: "I have a better offer. That's not enough to make my family's ends meet." No one feels bad about it. But when a woman does that, there's a backlash.

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

When people are really suffering, and we know they're suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy.

Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.

A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.

Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.'

A woman, if you're Most Intelligent or Most Likely to Succeed, that's an embarrassing thing. Or something that's not considered attractive, and I think that's what we need to change.