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The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.

Sheryl Sandberg

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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We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.
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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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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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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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Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
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When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
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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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When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.
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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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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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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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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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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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I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.
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I don’t pretend there aren’t biological differences, but I don’t believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it’s socialization, that we’re socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead.
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In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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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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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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Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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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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Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
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Bring your whole self to work. I don’t believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.
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Believe Professional Time Work Yourself
Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.
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Believe Success Yourself
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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The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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