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

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

Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized.

Grief comes and goes, it ebbs and flows. I think one of the lessons of this for me is that there's no one way to grieve. Everyone does it in their own way, in their own time, and we all process life and its challenges and its ups and downs as they come.

And in situations where a man and a woman each receive negative feedback, the woman's self-confidence and self-esteem drop to a much greater degree. The internalization of failure and the insecurity it breeds hurt future performance, so this pattern has serious long-term consequences.

Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

We've got to get women to sit at the table.