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Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.

Sheryl Sandberg

Feeling confident – or pretending that you feel confident – is necessary to reach for opportunities. It’s a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they’re seized.
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Career Confidence Feeling Necessary Opportunity Reach
Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way – not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.
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Care Children Couple Fundamental People Responsibility Women
I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.
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Job Myself Woman Work
So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.
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Afraid Brave Myself Yourself
Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.
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Existence Expectation Home Time Trust Value Women Work
The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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Growth Opportunity Price
Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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Best Frustration Perfection Worst
If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
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Change Leadership Role Woman
The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
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Career Decision Important Life Relationship
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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Career Choice Life Limitation Way
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
So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.
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Difference Life Perspective Work
I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.
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Development Encouragement Gratitude Help People Success
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
Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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Nobody can succeed on their own.
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