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We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

Sheryl Sandberg

Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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Institution Mindset Talk Transformation
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
Next time you’re about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, ‘My daughter has executive leadership skills.’
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Breathe Leadership Perspective Skill Time Yourself
Done is better than perfect.
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Complete Improvement Perfection
Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.
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Ability Women Worth
The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
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Career Decision Important Life Relationship
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
Until women are as ambitious as men, they’re not gong to achieve as much as men.
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Achievement Ambition Men Success
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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Determination Easy Hard Life Try Yourself
Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it’s the biggest career decision you can make.
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Career Decision Marriage Yourself
Framing the issue of work-life balance – as if the two were dramatically opposed – practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?
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Issues Life Lose Work
We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.
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Change Ignorance Motivational Strong Voice Women
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
Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else’s point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.
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Believe Communication Silence Start Truth Understand View
Feeling confident – or pretending that you feel confident – is necessary to reach for opportunities. It’s a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they’re seized.
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Career Confidence Feeling Necessary Opportunity Reach
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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Business Disappoint Enemy Expectation Inspirational Perfection Try

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