We all love people who give credit to others for their success.
ADORA SVITAKSince the age of four, I’ve been exploring what I can do with the written word.
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To show that you truly care, you listen.
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The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make ‘big miracles’ happen.
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There’s no committee that says, ‘This is the type of person who can change the world – and you can’t.
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Where no girl is denied access to education, for instance.
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If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we’d have a better world.
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Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn’t blow their own horn.
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But where’s the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?
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The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors’ pushup bras?
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Rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.
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The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.
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Young people are often asked, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives.
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Maybe we don’t need to wait for our grandchildren’s questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.
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The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.
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I was thrilled to be able to read at three.
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Whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV show, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today’s girls.
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