Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. There is work, there is life, and there is no balance.

The reason I wrote Lean In is I think people weren't actually noticing that we had stopped making progress. I gave a TED talk and said: "It turns out men still run the world." And the audience gasped as if that was news.

I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.

The most important thing we're doing differently is that we talk openly about gender at Facebook.

I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.

When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed.