It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.
SHERYL SANDBERGAnd anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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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A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.
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Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.
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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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I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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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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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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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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Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
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Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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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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