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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.

Sheryl Sandberg

When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.
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Ambition Equality Opinion Smart Time Women Work
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
It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
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Space Time Women
Until women are as ambitious as men, they’re not gong to achieve as much as men.
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Achievement Ambition Men Success
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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Difficult Empathy People Suffering Thinking
I’m not telling women to be like men. I’m telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.
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Change Equality Home Men Woman
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
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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Advice Boy Commitment Crazy Husband Life Marriage Relationship Woman
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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Change Powerful Reality Women
The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
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Dream Encouragement Possible Woman
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
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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Believe Confidence Hands Ourselves
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
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
It’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
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Herself Leadership Visual Wait
The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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Home Success Women

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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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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