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When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.

Sheryl Sandberg

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
There is no perfect fit when you’re looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.
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Ability Important Leadership Learning Opportunity Perfect Quality Yourself
When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.
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Connection Family Loyalty Organization Support
Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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Best Frustration Perfection Worst
Build your skills, not your resume.
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Choice Skill Yourself
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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Believe Desire Difference Excellence Leadership Man Myself Win
The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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Growth Opportunity Price
Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.
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Anger Better Expectation Goodness Leadership Place Voice Women Work World Yourself
The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men, so women don’t expect to achieve them, and that becomes one of the reasons they don’t.
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Achievement Childhood Expectation Leadership Live Men Ourselves Reason Women
Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way – not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.
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Care Children Couple Fundamental People Responsibility Women
Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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Institution Mindset Talk Transformation
I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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Opinion People Thinking Yourself
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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Determination Easy Hard Life Try Yourself
Women need to shift form thinking “I’m not ready to do that” to thinking “I want to do that- and I’ll learn by doing it.
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Change Learning Myself Need Perspective Thinking
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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Believe Feminism Inspirational Motivational Run Thinking Word
I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.
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Job Myself Woman Work

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