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.

Build your skills, not your resume.

We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel." Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor.

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

And what I saw happening is that women don't make one decision to leave the workforce. They makes lots of little decisions really far in advance that kind of inevitably lead them there.

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

Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.