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.
SHERYL SANDBERGUntil women are as ambitious as men, they’re not gong to achieve as much as men.
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Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.
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Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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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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The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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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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Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
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Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
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The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
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Until women are as ambitious as men, they’re not gong to achieve as much as men.
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I’m a feminist because I believe in women, it’s a heavy word, feminism, but it’s not one I think we should run from. I’m proud to be a feminist.
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When you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.
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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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Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face-and there will be barriers-be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try.
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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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It’s more pressure on women to – if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.
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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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Nobody can succeed on their own.
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Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.
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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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I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.
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It’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
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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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It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
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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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Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I’m pretty sure that would be a better world.
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