I want to tell any young girl out there who's a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.

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.

When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.

Our aspirations are really for women to be in half the leadership roles and men to be doing half the work of parenting.

Nobody can succeed on their own.

we compromise our career goals to make room for partners and children who may not even exist yet

After my husband, Dave, died, I called my friend Adam, a psychologist who studies how people find meaning in our lives, and I asked him what, if anything, I could do to help myself and my kids get through this. We started talking about resilience, then reading about it, then talking to other people who had gotten through grief and other huge challenges. In time, those conversations and that research helped me heal.