Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.
SHERYL SANDBERGMost people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way – not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.
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So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.
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Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.
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If you ask men why they did a good job, they’ll say, ‘I’m awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?’ If you ask women why they did a good job, what they’ll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.
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I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.
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I want to tell any young girl out there who’s a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.
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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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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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I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.
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Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
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Your life’s course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard.
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But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
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A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.
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The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
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In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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