Women asking for raises should not only know their value, but they should ask with the confidence that they're helping the company to be successful.

I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.

Without your voice being heard in Washington, the decisions we make aren't as good. I would urge women to consider public service. And if you want to run, give me a call. I'll help.

When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate.

When a woman has the opportunity to speak truth to power, it's important that she does, even if it's just trying to get a crosswalk in her neighborhood. That's how social change happens!

My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.

A strong mentor can help a young woman find and advance in the career of her dreams that otherwise may have seemed impossible.

Most of my friends that I know now [were sexually assaulted] stayed silent. And I see that still happening today. A lot of women will stay silent and not share what happened to them.

Women's voices aren't heard often enough. Congress should reflect the population, but with only 20 percent women in the Senate and 18 percent in the House, it just doesn't.

I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nations faith in its elected leaders.

I don't think clients you represented as an associate are relevant ... I think how you vote is relevant.

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

Everyone has their own purpose on this earth. It's up to you to figure out what your purpose in life is. No one can make that decision for you.

Leaders look out for people who can criticize them constructively and rebuke them reasonably.

Now I am past all comforts here but prayer.

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.

An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth.

I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material.

But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.

I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.

I complain about my life. I used to complain about boys or not being able to drive or failing a test. Now I complain about boys, not being able to drive, and leaving home so much.