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Sheryl Sandberg

It’s more pressure on women to – if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.
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Children Life Marriage Partner Person Right Woman
Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
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Care Motivation People Work
When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.
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Couple Divorce Husband Risk Stay Togetherness Wife Woman
It’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
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Herself Leadership Visual Wait
So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.
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Difference Life Perspective Work
We need to stop telling [women], “Get a mentor and you will excel.” Instead, we need to tell them, “Excel and you will get a mentor.
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Mentor Need Stop Women Yourself
You know, there has never been a 24-hour period in five years when I have not responded to e-mail at Facebook. I am not saying it’s easy. I work long hours.
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Easy Myself Social Media Women Work Yourself
The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men, so women don’t expect to achieve them, and that becomes one of the reasons they don’t.
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Achievement Childhood Expectation Leadership Live Men Ourselves Reason Women
If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
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Change Leadership Role Woman
I’m a feminist because I believe in women, it’s a heavy word, feminism, but it’s not one I think we should run from. I’m proud to be a feminist.
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Believe Feminism Inspirational Motivational Run Thinking Word
It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
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Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face-and there will be barriers-be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try.
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Believe Desire Fears Fortune Promise Try Yourself
Until women are as ambitious as men, they’re not gong to achieve as much as men.
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Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.
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Women need to shift form thinking “I’m not ready to do that” to thinking “I want to do that- and I’ll learn by doing it.
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Change Learning Myself Need Perspective Thinking
Bring your whole self to work. I don’t believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.
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Believe Professional Time Work Yourself

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