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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.

Sheryl Sandberg

Done is better than perfect.
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Complete Improvement Perfection
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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Change Ignorance Motivational Strong Voice Women
Nobody can succeed on their own.
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Alone Company Success Team
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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Ambition Equality Opinion Smart Time Women Work
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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Couple Divorce Husband Risk Stay Togetherness Wife Woman
Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else’s point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.
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Believe Communication Silence Start Truth Understand View
Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it’s the biggest career decision you can make.
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Career Decision Marriage Yourself
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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Difference Life Perspective Work
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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Goodness Help Job Men Women
When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.
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Connection Family Loyalty Organization Support
But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
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Greatness Ignorance Knowledge Learning Pain Wisdom
I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.
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Development Encouragement Gratitude Help People Success
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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Country Opportunity Potential Science Talent Technology True Women
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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Career Confidence Feeling Necessary Opportunity Reach
It’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
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Herself Leadership Visual Wait
It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
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