The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

Bring your whole self to work. I don't believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.

Excel and you will get a mentor.

When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her.

We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time - a word that's almost never used for boys - and that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce.

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