"Your focus on the user is what keeps you on track. For every line of code you write, for each module you install, for every host you deploy, you should be thinking about why the user needs this. If you’re unable to draw a clear connection from your work to those high-level user goals, then something is wrong."

"Women in code are driven. We want to prove ourselves. We want to work hard and grow, and it’s impossible to buy that kind of enthusiasm.In parting, I’d like to say: be the change you wish to see in our industry!"

"Autonomy is based on everybody having a shared vision. We are all allowed, and expected, to contribute to the product’s goals. That shared user domain is everybody’s responsibility. This goes hand-in-hand with trust. There’s no way you can implement the system correctly if you don’t know what those high-level goals are. Your flexibility and trust in your work depend on your understanding of the user. And that’s tied to how well you can communicate with other teams."

"Sometimes,’ she said, ‘at special moments like that, people feel a pain alongside their happiness. Im glad you watch everything so carefully, Klara."

"I suppose I’m saying Josie and I will always be together at some level, some deeper one, even if we go out there and don’t see each other any more."

"And almost all working women have had experience of one or more manifestations of the authority gap: whether it’s being patronized, underestimated, interrupted, challenged unnecessarily, talked over or ignored."

"Just because someone talks a lot doesn’t mean that they have anything interesting or important to say."

"My own definition of a feminist is a man or a woman who says, yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better. All of us, women and men, must do better."

"I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is just as obvious to everyone else."