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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.

Sheryl Sandberg

Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.
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Anger Better Expectation Goodness Leadership Place Voice Women Work World Yourself
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
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Chance Inspirational Life Motivational Opportunity Yourself
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
If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
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Enough Inspirational Progress
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
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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Goodness Help Job Men Women
Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
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Change Female Leadership. Comfortable Need
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
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
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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Advice Boy Commitment Crazy Husband Life Marriage Relationship Woman
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
Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby.
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Need Ourselves Phone Success White Woman
Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.
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Avoid Choice Demand Job Necessary Sacrifice
Done is better than perfect.
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Complete Improvement Perfection
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
Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.
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Change Powerful Reality Women

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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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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