My MESSAGE To Women Is It's Okay Not To Toe The PARTY Line On Every Issue. You Don't Have To Be A PUPPET Or A Mouthpiece For Your Party On Every Issue. You Can Be An Independent Thinker; You Can TAKE It Issue By Issue, And That's Okay. You Shouldn't Be Told, 'You Can't SIT With Us.'

Dream Small DREAMS. If You MAKE Them Too Big, You Get Overwhelmed And You Don't Do Anything. If You Make Small Goals And Accomplish Them, It Gives You The Confidence To Go On To HIGHER Goals.

No, I Didn't FORGET Samoan - I Understand It When You TALK To Me But, You KNOW, To Put Phrases TOGETHER I Sound LIKE I Do In English.

No 11-year-old GIRL Wants To Be 5-10. I ALWAYS Felt BIG And UNATTRACTIVE.

Yes, CEOs Are Under Pressure From All Sides, And Executives Have All SORTS Of People Pushing And Pulling At Them. But Too OFTEN, They Begin To View And TREAT Their Teams, And Especially Their Assistants, As Appliances. And A Good Assistant Knows That The Last THING Their Boss Wants To HEAR From Them Is A Personal Complaint About Anything.

I Always Tell People, Anger Is Like Liquid. It's Fluid, It's Like Water. You Put It In A Container And It TAKES The Shape Of That Container. So MANY People You See In PRISON, Unleashing War On Their People, They Are ANGRY, And They Take Their Anger And Put It Into A VIOLENT Container.

At A CERTAIN AGE, Death BECOMES Familiar To You-or A Loss Becomes Familiar-the Tragedies That Are More Commonplace In LIFE.

Until Systers CAME Into EXISTENCE, The Notion Of A Global 'community Of WOMEN In COMPUTER SCIENCE' Did Not Exist.

When The Israeli Leaders Launched Their Expansionist WAR In June 1967 They Never Envisaged That 40 YEARS Later They WOULD STILL Be Haunted By The Consequences.

The Days Of CEOs GETTING Rich While Shareholders LOSE Has GOT To End. MANAGEMENT MUST Be Accountable.