The most important thing is to have a more open and honest dialogue about gender issues.

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

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

Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.

So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren't afraid? And then go do it.

Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.

Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.'

In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.

Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.

Your life's course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard.

Okay, take a deep breath, I told myself. Don't go all hormonal. Get the facts straight. Have a mental doughnut.

Know from root to fruit

The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.

You have to shoot, to want to score goals no matter how. Just score that goal! You can't be afraid to miss.

Working with Jack [Nicholson] is sort of like standing in front of the Grand Canyon.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

The human personality has no limitations except those which it accepts.

I have no affectation when I speak

I came home at dusk with my ears ringing from the quiet.