Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
SHERYL SANDBERGThe time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
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Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that – whatever success they have, that same success – to their own core skills.
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Next time you’re about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, ‘My daughter has executive leadership skills.’
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Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
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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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We’re focused on doing one thing incredibly well. If you look at other companies, all of these companies are doing a lot of different things but we’re still, as we grow, doing exactly one thing.
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Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.
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I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.
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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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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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The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
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Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.
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It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
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Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else’s point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.
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When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.
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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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Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
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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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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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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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Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
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Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.
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Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it’s the biggest career decision you can make.
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Until women are as ambitious as men, they’re not gong to achieve as much as men.
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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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I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.
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