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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.

Sheryl Sandberg

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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Career Work
If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
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Change Leadership Role Woman
Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
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Believe Inspirational Risk Yourself
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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Education Girl Myself Serious Young
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
I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.
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Experience Path Togetherness Travel
There is no perfect fit when you’re looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.
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Ability Important Leadership Learning Opportunity Perfect Quality Yourself
Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
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Believe Success Yourself
The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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Growth Opportunity Price
I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.
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Career Force Myself Need Stay Thinking Woman Work
We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.
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Believe Confidence Hands Ourselves
When people are really suffering, and we know they’re suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy.
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Difficult Empathy People Suffering Thinking
Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that’s partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.
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Age Encouragement Job Leadership Nation Progress Thinking Woman World Young
I don’t pretend there aren’t biological differences, but I don’t believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it’s socialization, that we’re socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead.
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Believe Desire Difference Excellence Leadership Man Myself Win
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
I’m not telling women to be like men. I’m telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.
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Change Equality Home Men Woman

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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