What I tell everyone, and I really do for myself is, I have a long-run dream, which is I want to work on stuff that I think matters.

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby.

We're the only developed country in the world that doesn't have paid maternity leave. Paternity leave is just as important. Paid family medical leave so that you can take care of a parent, a child, a grandparent, whatever you need to do. I think we're shortsighted when we don't invest in our employees as companies, and as an economy, because we invest in them and they invest back in us.

When you're more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.

And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?

I had heard that when people lost people, there was anger. But I definitely experienced it a lot more than I was prepared for it. Anger was not something I'd ever really felt in my life and I was not prepared for it.