What I saw a thousand times during the downturn was, 'We'd like to give her that opportunity, but we need to go with the sure thing - we can't afford diversity right now,'

If it comes down to your ethics vs. a job, choose ethics. You can always find another job.

People say to me, 'Has being a woman helped or hindered your career?' And the answer is yes.

If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough.

Networking is the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business.

If you're not making some notable mistakes along the way, you're certainly not taking enough business and career chances.

Nothing bad happens when women are in positions of power.

I love what's going on these days with these powerful women who are really working to make a difference.

There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.

Women, girls and young ladies tend to be as good or better at math than boys, but you didn't think that either.

As we work together and pool our resources, there's room for everyone to be successful.

Books open a realm to a world beyond our own, all one has to do is take a leap of faith, open one, and step through the gate, passed the veil of myth on into the unknown.

Use everything you have to become what they said you couldn't

You are accompanied through life, Emily Jesse occasionally understood, not only by the beloved and accusing departed, but by your own ghost too, also accusing, also unappeased.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.

People who are difficult, whether they're getting their $10 million or $10,000, are going to be difficult no matter what. It really just depends on the person.

Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.

Creativity means you have to disappear, you have to allow God to be.

If you economically empower a woman, she represents enormous opportunity that can actually be transformative not only for her family and for her community, but at the aggregate level for the economy.

My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures. See language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.