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“You're hiring women because, and especially women returnees, because they have the experience, they have the qualifications, they have a fire in their bellies to prove themselves again, and they'll join you at no notice period.”

“Earlier, it was usually just the large MNCs that were driving this change. Now it's like every Indian company also, SMEs, startups, all of them are coming to us and talking to us, then how do we get more women in and how do we get more women to stay and rise?”

“I mean, again, that career clock was set according to the career of a man. A woman can have a very different career clock.”

“Finally, any person's career usually spans from when they are 20 to 65. At least, that's 45 years. In the middle, if you have, say, two, three years off when you know, when motherhood hits, or marriage hits, or mobility hits, or medical care hits, it's okay. T…”

“Kids, you know, they will listen to very little of what you say. But they're watching everything that you do. And if you want your child and especially your daughter to one day have a successful career, then goddammit, you do it too.”

“First of all, this whole strive for perfection, right, that women do, this is really our downfall. Okay, we want to be the perfect, we want to be perfect at work, perfect at home, perfect mother, perfect wife, perfect daughter-in-law, perfect boss, perfect col…”

“No, most women shy from it. Okay. Because most women are trying to be the good girl. Yeah. Where you're not supposed to answer back to authority or to people who are, who you're supposed to show a lot of respect to, especially in laws.”

“No, you know, but the thing is, one thing that we've realized that every woman on a break has in common is that she loses her confidence.”

“It's not enough for a woman to just talk about her education and work experience. She must talk about her life experience. And talk about the skills that you learned from a life experience. Don't think about it as a handicap. It's absolutely not a handicap tha…”