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Sheryl Sandberg

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01Undated

What would you do if you weren't afraid?

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02Undated

Done is better than perfect.

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03Undated

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

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04Undated

In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

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05Undated

I hope you find true meaning, contentment, and passion in your life. I hope you navigate the difficult times and come out with greater strength and resolve. I hope you find whatever balance you seek with your eyes wide open. And I hope that you - yes, you - have the ambition to lean in to your career and run the world. Because the world needs you to change it.

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06Undated

Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.

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07Undated

Women need to shift from thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it.

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08Undated

Why to women have to decide between family and career if men don't even think about it?

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09Undated

If we push hard now, this next wave can be the last wave. In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders

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10Undated

Show me a woman without guilt and I'll show you a man

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11Undated

Feeling threatened by others' choices pulls us all down. Instead, we should funnel our energy into breaking this cycle.

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12Undated

Women can enter (...) negotiations with the knowledge that showing concern for the common good, even as they negotiate for themselves, will strengthen their position.

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13Undated

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. When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated and ambitious. 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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14Undated

Taking risks, choosing growth, challenging ourselves, and asking for promotions (with smiles on our faces, of course) are all important elements of managing a career. One of my favorite quotes comes from author Alice Walker, who observed, "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."Do not wait for power to be offered. Like that tiara, it might never materialize. And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?

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15Undated

I'm sorry if this sounds harsh or surprises anyone, but this is where we are. If you want the outcome to be different, you will have to do something about it.

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16Undated

I realized that searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming. We all grew up on the fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty," which instructs young women that if they just wait for their prince to arrive, they will be kissed and whisked away on a white horse to live happily ever after. Now young women are told that if they can just find the right mentor, they will be pushed up the ladder and whisked away to the corner office to live happily ever after. Once again, we are teaching women to be too dependent on others.

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17Undated

It takes a near act of rebellion for even a four-year-old to break away from society's expectations.

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18Undated

But while compliant, raise-your-hand-and-speak-when-called-on behaviors might be rewarded in school, they are less valued in the workplace.

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19Undated

Feedback is an opinion, grounded in observations and experiences, which allows us to know what impression we make on others.

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20Undated

[F]eminism wasn't supposed to make us feel guilty, or prod us into constant competition over who is raising children better, organizing more cooperative marriages, or getting less sleep. It was supposed to make us free -to give us not only choices but the ability to make these choices without constantly feeling that we'd somehow gotten it wrong.

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21Undated

You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around.

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22Undated

A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes. I believe that this would be a better world.

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23Undated

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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24Undated

Looking back, it made no sense for my college friends and me to distance ourselves from the hard-won achievements of earlier feminists. We should have cheered their efforts. Instead, we lowered our voices, thinking the battle was over, and with this reticence we hurt ourselves.

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