Margaret Heffernan

“In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us.”

“The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.”

“I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.”

“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.”

“In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us.”