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.
SHERYL SANDBERGReal 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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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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Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
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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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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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If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
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Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
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It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
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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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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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When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.
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Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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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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I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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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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The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
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Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
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I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.
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Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.
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A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.
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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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The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.
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I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.
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Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
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But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
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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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Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
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