The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
SHERYL SANDBERGIn the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.
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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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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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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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When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
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If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
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And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
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Done is better than perfect.
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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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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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Feeling confident – or pretending that you feel confident – is necessary to reach for opportunities. It’s a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they’re seized.
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Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
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It’s more pressure on women to – if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.
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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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