Barack Obama Quotes

My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can.

Quite a lot of British women stop working when they have children, and that is rarely the case in Denmark. We have a very flat, structured way of approaching everything. Nobody's the boss. In a sense, we're all equal.

We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.

There was a previous generation of women who rose through the ranks in an environment when work and life were highly compartmentalized. And I think now, because of technology, we're always on. Where there used to be work life and home life, now it's one life. And I think a lot of companies don't recognize that.

Congress is too old. They don't have a stake in the game.

I think what Sheryl Sandberg said about the importance of 'leaning in' is very true, but it's not sufficient.

As we all know, sexism in the workplace is a serious issue. It's something that needs active disruption and change.

As companies deal with the impact of technology and the incredible pace of change, they are fundamentally rethinking talent and family leave programs.

One of the best side effects about working on 'Billions' that I did not anticipate were the number of conversations I had about gender identity with my fellow actors and also members of the crew. From the person holding the boom to the person wiring my microphone, just how many conversations I had with so many open minds and hearts.

Where people work and their environment is becoming more and more important, especially for millennials.

I want white men to look around in their office and say, 'Oh, look, there's a lot of white men here. Let's change this.'

When I joined Google, it was 1,000 people. It took me two and a half years to look around and realize there weren't a lot of people like me.

We're not going to fix the sexual harassment epidemic unless we can acknowledge that this is not a women's issue, this is a man's issue. The burden should not be on the shoulders of women only to solve this, because we can't do it alone and it's not fair. We're seeing now the tsunami of all these women coming forward, which is such a blessing. But the tipping point will be when men in the workplace decide to be our allies.

We have to start calling sexual harassment out because only then can we start to make progress on it.

Sexual harassment in the workplace confuses rewards for performance with rewards for attractiveness and sexual availability.

The American work environment has to change, not the women. We should be recognizing that what women are not fitting into is a very narrow, male-dominated workplace of the 1950s.

Women don't want equal treatment, they couldn't handle it if they got it. It's a tough world out there. What a lot of women are actually looking for is special treatment. What women need to realise is that they have to toughen up, we can't ask for equal pay, you have to be paid on performance and the results you deliver.

People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.

When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant.

[After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!

You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won’t change.

The way that I'm feeling the shift in movie industry is that women are allowed to be part of the development process. So I do feel like things are changing because I'm allowed to option books or write an original screenplay or direct. Those possibilities are really wide open. I think that males still struggle to write for females, which is totally fine because I don't think I could write a really impactful male role because that's not the life that I lived. So we'll just keep shouting and say we need more opportunities for not just women but people that are just different.

This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is somehow responsible for increasing juvenile delinquency or the increase in divorce rate, is just so much bullshit.

At a certain point, the atmosphere in the West could change. But I don't see determined political will [for that] at the moment.

Women will have all the power one day anyway. It's just a matter of time.