Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.

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.

I'm not writing about things other women do. I'm writing for other women to have more self-confidence because I need it myself! And if more women were in power, I would feel more comfortable.

Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I'm pretty sure that would be a better world.

Over the last 10 years, women have stalled out at the top.

Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.

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