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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.

Sheryl Sandberg

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
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Greatness Ignorance Knowledge Learning Pain Wisdom
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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Hard Work Men People Skill Success Women
Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.
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Avoid Choice Demand Job Necessary Sacrifice
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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Change Equality Home Men Woman
Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.
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Ability Women Worth
Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
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Change Female Leadership. Comfortable Need
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
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
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
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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Believe Communication Silence Start Truth Understand View
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
Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
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Empathy Reality Wisdom
We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.
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Change Ignorance Motivational Strong Voice Women
Bring your whole self to work. I don’t believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.
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Believe Professional Time Work Yourself
Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.
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Change Powerful Reality Women
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
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
The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
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Career Decision Important Life Relationship
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
Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face-and there will be barriers-be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try.
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Believe Desire Fears Fortune Promise Try Yourself
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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Dream Hard Work Myself People
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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Country Opportunity Potential Science Talent Technology True Women
Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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Best Frustration Perfection Worst
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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Believe Mother Myself Simplicity Success Women Young
Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
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Believe Inspirational Risk Yourself
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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Better Change Home Men Ourselves Run Transformation World
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

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