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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If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
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I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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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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Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.
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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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Bring your whole self to work. I don’t believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.
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I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.
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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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Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
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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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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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Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
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I don’t pretend there aren’t biological differences, but I don’t believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it’s socialization, that we’re socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead.
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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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If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
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