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Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.

Sheryl Sandberg

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
Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.
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Anger Better Expectation Goodness Leadership Place Voice Women Work World 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 go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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Opinion People Thinking 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
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
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
If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
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Change Leadership Role 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
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
When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a ‘good man’ before they are all taken.
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Achievement Goodness Man Marriage Myself Parents Woman Young
The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
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Dream Encouragement Possible Woman
When people are really suffering, and we know they’re suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy.
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Difficult Empathy People Suffering Thinking
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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Company Country Equality Home Inspirational Man True Word
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
Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.
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Advice Control Decision Oneself

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