It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.
SHERYL SANDBERGI’m a feminist because I believe in women, it’s a heavy word, feminism, but it’s not one I think we should run from. I’m proud to be a feminist.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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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 most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
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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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I’m a feminist because I believe in women, it’s a heavy word, feminism, but it’s not one I think we should run from. I’m proud to be a feminist.
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What I tell everyone, and I really do for myself is, I have a long-run dream, which is I want to work on stuff that I think matters.
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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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It’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
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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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If you ask men why they did a good job, they’ll say, ‘I’m awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?’ If you ask women why they did a good job, what they’ll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.
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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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The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
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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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You know, there has never been a 24-hour period in five years when I have not responded to e-mail at Facebook. I am not saying it’s easy. I work long hours.
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Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
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