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So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.

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The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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Home Success Women
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
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
Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.
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Next time you’re about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, ‘My daughter has executive leadership skills.’
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Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
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Believe Confident Necessary Potential Worth
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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I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.
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The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
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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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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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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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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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And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
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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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If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
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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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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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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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I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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Institution Mindset Talk Transformation
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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When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
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But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
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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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Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.
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Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.
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