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.
SHERYL SANDBERGWhen you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.
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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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No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential. This is especially true of science and technology, where women with a surplus of talent still face a deficit of opportunity.
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Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I’m pretty sure that would be a better world.
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Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
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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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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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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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But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
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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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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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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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If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
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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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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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