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.
SHERYL SANDBERGI 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.
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
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Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
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When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.
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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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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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Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
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Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
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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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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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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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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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Nobody can succeed on their own.
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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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