When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.
SHERYL SANDBERGNobody can succeed on their own.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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When people are really suffering, and we know they’re suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy.
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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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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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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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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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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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Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.
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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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If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
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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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Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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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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We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
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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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So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.
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