I learned from Fred that effective communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else’s point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute trut...
I almost hate to say this, but I am the happiest I have ever been in my life, she told me. Sometimes it takes going through something so awful to realize the beauty that is out there in this world. Br...
HAVING IT ALL. Perhaps the greatest trap ever set for women was the coining of this phrase. Bandied about in speeches, headlines, and articles, these three little words are intended to be aspirational...
Counting blessings can actually increase happiness and health by reminding us of the good things in life.
But I also know that in order to continue to grow and challenge myself, I have to believe in my own abilities. I still face situations that I fear are beyond my capabilities. I still have days when I...
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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.
I know that my success comes from hard work, help from others, and being at the right place at the right time. I feel a deep and enduring sense of gratitude to those who have given me opportunities an...
Show me a woman without guilt and I'll show you a man
It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.
Almost three million Americans are caring for an adult with cancer, which takes an average of thirty-three hours a week.
You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around.
Women can enter (...) negotiations with the knowledge that showing concern for the common good, even as they negotiate for themselves, will strengthen their position.
We need more portrayals of women as competent professionals and happy mothers - or even happy professionals and competent mothers.
She was undergoing daily radiation treatments, which were physically draining and made her forgetful. In any version of picturing this moment—that fantasy of what you want to be—I would have been stro...
Professional ambition is expected of men but is optional—or worse, sometimes even a negative—for women. She is very ambitious is not a compliment in our culture.
Over the past decade, child care costs have risen twice as fast as the median income of families with children.
One of the cases we worked on concerned the shortage of organ donations, which results in eighteen deaths each day in the United States alone. I never forgot this case, and seventeen years later, Face...
Okay, so all a woman has to do is ignore society's expectations, be ambitious, sit at the table, work hard, and then it's smooth sailing all the way. What could possibly go wrong?
It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do.