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Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.

Sheryl Sandberg

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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We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
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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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Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
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Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.
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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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Build your skills, not your resume.
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Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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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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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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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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Nobody can succeed on their own.
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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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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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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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But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
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