The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential. This is especially true of science and technology, where women with a surplus of talent still face a deficit of opportunity.
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Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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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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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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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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Framing the issue of work-life balance – as if the two were dramatically opposed – practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?
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If you ask men why they did a good job, they’ll say, ‘I’m awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?’ If you ask women why they did a good job, what they’ll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.
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Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.
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Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
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So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.
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I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.
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The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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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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You know, there has never been a 24-hour period in five years when I have not responded to e-mail at Facebook. I am not saying it’s easy. I work long hours.
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