The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting.

When you want to change things, you won't please everyone.

I spent most of my career, including my time at McKinsey, never acknowledging that I was a woman. And, you know, fast forward - I'm 43 now - fitting in is not helping us.

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.

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

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

We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel." Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor.