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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.

Sheryl Sandberg

Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.
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Brave Fortune Inspirational Try Yourself
Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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Best Frustration Perfection Worst
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
I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.
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Experience Path Togetherness Travel
The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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Growth Opportunity Price
Until women are as ambitious as men, they’re not gong to achieve as much as men.
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Achievement Ambition Men Success
I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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Opinion People Thinking 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
Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that’s partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.
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Age Encouragement Job Leadership Nation Progress Thinking Woman World Young
If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
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Change Leadership Role Woman
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 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 want to tell any young girl out there who’s a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.
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Education Girl Myself Serious Young
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
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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Mentor Need Stop Women Yourself
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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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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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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