Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.
SHERYL SANDBERGIt’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
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The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
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Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.
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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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We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
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Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.
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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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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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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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But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
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It’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
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When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands.
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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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The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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When you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.
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