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.
SHERYL SANDBERGIf more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
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Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it’s the biggest career decision you can make.
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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’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
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The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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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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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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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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When you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.
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Done is better than perfect.
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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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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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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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