I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.

Believe that there are no limitations, no barriers to your success --- you will be empowered and you will achieve.

Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.

The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.

The world is changing. We all know this. And as that world changes, if you don't transform your company, you're stuck.

I say to my team all the time that this is how I grew up: Always thinking that, at any minute, I could be unemployed. You have to scramble. You have to work hard and get ahead of things.

Where you are is not who you are

My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.

I'm an advocate for change and eager to break a little glass when needed.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.

Only through a steady mind and constant faith can your desires manifest.

The perfect state is one where men weep and rejoice over the same things.

Trophy hunters are like politicians, they both like to pull the trigger from the comfort of a safe distance.

Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.

The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading

I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty close to the last one, that grew up without TV.

I just reared back and let them go.

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

Stay in your lane. If you're good enough, people will move to you.