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Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.

Sheryl Sandberg

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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Career Force Myself Need Stay Thinking Woman Work
I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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Opinion People Thinking Yourself
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
The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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Growth Opportunity Price
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
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Chance Inspirational Life Motivational Opportunity 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
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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Children Life Marriage Partner Person Right Woman
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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Couple Divorce Husband Risk Stay Togetherness Wife Woman
Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
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Empathy Reality Wisdom
Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.
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Authentic Leadership Perfection Powerful Women
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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Difference Life Perspective Work
If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
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Change Leadership Role Woman
I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.
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Accomplishment Choice Home Myself Son Success
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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Career Confidence Feeling Necessary Opportunity Reach
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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Need Ourselves Phone Success White Woman
So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.
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Afraid Brave Myself Yourself
It’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
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Herself Leadership Visual Wait
Build your skills, not your resume.
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Choice Skill Yourself
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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Advice Boy Commitment Crazy Husband Life Marriage Relationship Woman
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 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
When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.
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Ambition Equality Opinion Smart Time Women Work
In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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Change Empowerment Future Leadership Transformation
Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
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Believe Success Yourself
It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
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Space Time Women
Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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Best Frustration Perfection Worst
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

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