Quotes from Katty Kay

When I started on Twitter, I was just staggered by how rude people could be.

In the scheme of life, being moved aside from a job, however much you love it, is a small thing.

Confidence is not the same as self-esteem.

If we can bring our perception of our ability in line with our actual ability then we have the capacity to be authentic. Then we can accept we are as good as we really are.

Economists argue about the relative impact of immigrants versus robots on wage stagnation - voters don't care much. They blame immigrants. It's easier to get mad at a person from Macedonia or Mexico, taking your job than it is to get mad at a piece of technology from Silicon Valley.

Burnout is a real risk, especially now when there is so much news. I take real breaks, put my phone down, get out in to the countryside and ignore the news - even if its just for a few hours.

When a man comments on your physical appearance, the effect is often just to distract from your professional ability.

In normal circumstances, if you want a job done well, you chose someone with experience doing that job.

It's never clear to me why it's so hard for people to say sorry. It's a simple word, just two syllables and its positive impact is enormous.

Ive actually developed a well of confidence. But would I apply for the 'Financial Times' economics correspondent? No, I would feel I wasnt up there.

Everybody fails, its no big deal. Its what being human is. Dont let that stop you from taking risks.

Globalisation, with inexorable speed, has changed the world we live in. For all of us. Jobs have changed, the way we trade has changed, who we employ has changed and the feel of where we live has changed.

My best teacher was my mother. She was a diplomats wife living in the Arab world in the 70s and 80s who always worked, even in really tough circumstances.

The lack of role models at the top means women can't look up and see an image of themselves as easily as men can. And there is still discrimination.

If you can force yourself to get through failures and pull something out of them, they can teach you a lot.

Television is an X-ray. If you try to be something youre not, television will pick it up.

A visit to the White House is a coup for any foreign leader, it's a useful weapon of soft power.

In Rwanda, which has gone through a devastating civil war and has a per-capita income of $16 per year, half of members of Parliament are women. But in most countries, including the United States, theres a paucity of women in public office.

It's a ridiculous function of modern work life that we can't just be sick, we then have to beat ourselves up about being sick.

Every man who has a sister, mother, wife, girlfriend or even a random female in their life who they've spent more than three minutes with knows that telling a woman they've gained weight is just never going to go down well.

Closing the confidence gap means being honest about your abilities, not constantly undervaluing them.

We talked to a lot of psychologists who were working in business schools who put men and women in front of scientific reasoning quizzes. The women will routinely think they have done less well than they have done. The men will think they have done better than they have done. In reality, they have done about the same.

Every woman dreams of a workplace where her boss doesn't suggest they grab a drink after work, where there isn't that colleague you'd just rather not get stuck in the office with alone and where your job prospects don't depend, however subtly, on whether you put up with lascivious comments from a man who has power over you.

America is learning the art of humility. That's a good thing for the rest of the world.