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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.

Sheryl Sandberg

The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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Home Success Women
Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
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Change Female Leadership. Comfortable Need
The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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Growth Opportunity Price
When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a ‘good man’ before they are all taken.
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Achievement Goodness Man Marriage Myself Parents Woman Young
Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
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Believe Inspirational Risk Yourself
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
We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
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Change Help Inspirational Philosophy Positive Wisdom
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
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
Nobody can succeed on their own.
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Alone Company Success Team
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
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
The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
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Dream Encouragement Possible Woman
It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
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Space Time Women
The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.
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Career Choice Life Limitation Way
But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
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Greatness Ignorance Knowledge Learning Pain Wisdom

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