Now I proudly call myself a feminist. If Tip O’Neill were alive today, I might even tell him that I’m a pom-pom girl for feminism. I hope more women, and men, will join me in accepting this distinguis...
Many have argued with me that ambition is not the problem. Women are not less ambitious than men, they insist, but more enlightened with different and more meaningful goals. I do not dismiss or disput...
I’m giving you these comments because I have very high expectations and I know that you can reach them.
If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can … and accepting them. Journalist Mary Curtis suggested in The Washington Post that the best advi...
I learned that friendship isn’t only what you can give, it’s what you’re able to receive.
I don’t know anyone who has been handed only roses. We all encounter hardships. Some we see coming; others take us by surprise. It can be as tragic as the sudden death of a child, as heartbreaking as...
Decades of social science studies have confirmed what the Heidi/Howard case study so blatantly demonstrates: we evaluate people based on stereotypes (gender, race, nationality, and age, among others)....
A woman needs to combine niceness with insistence, a style that Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan, calls relentlessly pleasant
A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes. I believe that this would be a better world. The laws of economics and many studies of div...
In order to fix the problems we needed to be able to talk about gender without people thinking we were crying for help.
I would love to meet J.K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her imagination. I read every 'Harry Potter' book as it came out and looked forward to each new one. I am...
[T]he real issue was not that I felt like a fraud, but that I could feel something deeply and profoundly and be completely wrong.
Writing this book is not just me encouraging others to lean in. This is me leaning in. Writing this book is what I would do if I weren't afraid.
When I don't feel confident, one tactic I've learned is that it sometimes helps to fake it.
We are each unique … which is why it is so wrong to be lumped together by stereotypes or viewed with narrowed expectations based on skin color or chromosomes. The irony is that dealing with this preju...
Wanting to improve is not a sign of weakness.
Trying to overcorrect is a great way to find middle ground.
Resilience is not just built in individuals. It is built among individuals—in our neighborhoods, schools, towns, and governments. When we build resilience together, we become stronger ourselves and fo...
Psychologists have found that over time we usually regret the chances we missed, not the chances we took.
Personal connections lead to assignments and promotions, so it needs to be okay for men and women to spend informal time together the same way men can. A senior man and a junior man at a bar is seen a...