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" I think it is too hard for men to talk about gender. We have to let men talk about this... because we need men to talk about this if it is ever going to change. "

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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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" When I wrote 'Lean In,' some people argue that I did not spend enough time writing about the difficulties women face when they don't have a partner. They were right. "

" I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own. "

" Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that's partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy. "

" I am a bigger-picture manager because I've lived through something that's a big picture. "

" I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias. "

" I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done. "

" 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. "

" We leave people alone when they need us most. "

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People

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" We tap into something when we're honest about what's going on in our lives. "

" Judaism is my home. Judaism is super important to me, in death and in life. "

" Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men. "

" Before social media, if I, as an individual wanted to publish something to the world, unless I could get some local TV crew to interview me, or I wrote an op-ed or took out an ad, I had no voice. "

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" I believe very deeply that the world would be a better place if it weren't run as it's currently run, which is by men. "

" I believe if we had half our companies and half our countries run by women, and half our homes run by men, things would be better. We know our companies would be more productive. If you use the full talents of the population, you're more productive. We know our homes would be happier. "

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

" I would be better at my job if I were technical. "

" False news hurts everyone. It hurts our community; it hurts us as individuals. "

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" Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity. "

" I think we build resilience to prepare for whatever adversity we'll face. And we all face some adversity - we're all living some form of Option B. "

" 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. "

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

" So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance. "

" 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. "

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

" Every day is a gift. "

" I learned that when life pulls you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface, and breathe again. "

" Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend. "