Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just want to be the noun.

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.

I purely came over because I thought you looked extremely lonely. You have an extremely sensitive face.

Because he was suffering doubts about himself and his future, Adams may have felt comfort demeaning the behavior and the character of women.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

I love Monet - I've nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it's a series of blobs - amazing.

One of life's minor satisfactions is forgetting.

I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.

The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.

Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.

In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.