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" I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books. "

Sheryl Sandberg

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" Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent. "

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" I really don't have any plan to leave Facebook. I put it so many times on the record, and I just don't get what to do to say it as clear as possible: I'm staying in Facebook; I really love my job. "

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" What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again. "

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" I don't believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time. "

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" I absolutely loved Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and didn't want it to end. It's hilarious as well as important. Not only did I laugh on every page, but I was nodding along, highlighting and dog-earing like crazy. "

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" Kids are resilient. My kids are resilient. "

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" People who are underprivileged have more to grieve and have more to overcome. "

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" When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her. "

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" There are so many kids in this country growing up in poverty, facing very, very hard challenges... We need resilience for all of them. "

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" You can date whoever you want, but you should marry the nerds and the good guys. "

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" I want people to help take care of each other at work. That's what I want. Do you know how many hours we spend at work? We spend more time at work than we spend at home. When people are suffering, we don't help enough. "

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" I look forward to the day when half our homes are run by men and half our companies and institutions are run by women. When that happens, it won't just mean happier women and families; it will mean more successful businesses and better lives for us all. "

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" I love how when I say the world is still run by men, and sometimes I say the world is still run by white men, people gasp as if that's news. That's not news. That's obvious. "

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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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" My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history. "

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" When you suffer a tragedy, the secondary loss of having it bleed into other areas of your life is so real. "

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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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" 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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" I think when tragedy occurs, it presents a choice. You can give in to the void: the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even breathe. Or you can try to find meaning. "

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" Big businesses have always had a lot more voice. They can afford advertising; they can afford marketing. But for small businesses, being able to quickly and cheaply connect to customers is a big deal. "

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" For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited. "

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" I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more. "

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" We all have shortcomings. "

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" We need to create areas to come together, where we can be there for each other. "

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" We need to build resilience together, rooted in religion, rooted in schools, rooted in our health care institutions. "

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" Over the last 10 years, women have stalled out at the top. "

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" My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can. "

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