Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter.

I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more.

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. When a man does a good job, everyone says, 'That's great.' When a woman does that same thing, she'll get feedback that says things like, 'Your results are good, but your peers just don't like you as much' or 'maybe you were a little aggressive.'

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.

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.

Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.

The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting.