Sixty-four percent of managers in the U.S. are afraid to be alone in a room with a woman. Mentoring is all about being alone in a room with someone. Let's start talking about this honestly. The lack of equal access is the silent killer for women and no one wants to talk about it.

The reason I don't have a plan is because if I have a plan I'm limited to today's options.

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.

I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.

The promise of equality is not the same as true equality.

The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.

For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.