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The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.

Sheryl Sandberg

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
Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that’s partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.
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Age Encouragement Job Leadership Nation Progress Thinking Woman World Young
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
The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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Growth Opportunity Price
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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Breathe Leadership Perspective Skill Time Yourself
I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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Opinion People Thinking Yourself
Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.
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Avoid Choice Demand Job Necessary Sacrifice
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
Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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Institution Mindset Talk Transformation
When you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.
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Change Perseverance Success
But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.
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Authentic Believe Change Connection Myself People
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
And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
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Appearance Choice Weird
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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Education Girl Myself Serious Young
We need to stop telling [women], “Get a mentor and you will excel.” Instead, we need to tell them, “Excel and you will get a mentor.
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Mentor Need Stop Women Yourself
We’re focused on doing one thing incredibly well. If you look at other companies, all of these companies are doing a lot of different things but we’re still, as we grow, doing exactly one thing.
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Company Different Focus Growth Oneself

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