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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.

Sheryl Sandberg

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
You know, there has never been a 24-hour period in five years when I have not responded to e-mail at Facebook. I am not saying it’s easy. I work long hours.
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Easy Myself Social Media Women Work Yourself
I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.
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Accomplishment Choice Home Myself Son Success
I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.
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Career Force Myself Need Stay Thinking Woman Work
The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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Growth Opportunity Price
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
Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
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Care Motivation People Work
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
I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, ‘Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.’ I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it’s not that simple.
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Believe Mother Myself Simplicity Success Women Young
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
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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Mentor Need Stop Women Yourself
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
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Leadership Presence Result Success
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
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
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
No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential. This is especially true of science and technology, where women with a surplus of talent still face a deficit of opportunity.
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Country Opportunity Potential Science Talent Technology True Women

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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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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