“I only cry in the office with my door closed [and] on the phone to my mother. You have to do it. You have to channel it however you can channel it,” said attorney Bonnie Glatzer, partner with the law firm of Thelen, Reid, and Priest.

“In our leadership training we have a whole section about what makes women feel uncomfortable and certainly tears is one of those topics. You obviously see tears more with women, and women want to know what to do about it. You can address it and say, ‘I’m feeling pretty emotional right now. I need a couple of minutes, and I’ll be right back.’ If you can’t get over it, explain that this is not a good time for me to talk about this and make an appointment to come back and discuss it later,” explained Carolyn Elman, Executive Director of ABWA.  

Excerpted from The Girls' Guide to Power and Success by Susan Wilson Solovic. Copyright © 2001 Susan Wilson Solovic. Published by AMACOM Books, a division of American Management Association, New York, NY. Used with permission. All rights reserved. www.amacombooks.org.