“A female business executive willing to do what it takes to get to the top—go on every trip, meet every client, accept every promotion, even pick up and move to a new location when asked—needs what male CEOs have always had: a spouse who bears most of the burden at home.”
– Andrew Moravcsik, in Why I Put My Wife’s Career First

“Do you feel like a certain amount of being a parent is realizing what an ass you were before becoming a parent?”

Ira Glass on This American Life “Too Soon?”

“I decided to praise my son not when he succeeded at things he was already good at, but when he persevered with things that he found difficult. I stressed to him that by struggling, your brain grows. Between the deep body of research on the field of learning mindsets and this personal experience with my son, I am more convinced than ever that mindsets toward learning could matter more than anything else we teach.”
– Salman Khan, in The Learning Myth: Why I’ll Never Tell My Son He’s Smart

“I also find that somehow, the way I’m built, the hardest part of my job is simply to shift from one task to the next. The new task is like icy water you have to dive into. The old task is a warm bath. It’s especially hard when I know the new task is going to be really difficult, as half of them are. I always have to brace myself.”
– Ira Glass on LifeHacker

“I believe the world would be a better place if half our companies and half our countries were run by women and half our homes were run by men.”
– Sheryl Sandberg