"In fact, my New Year's resolution every year, and I'm Jewish so I get two New Years a year, is to meditate, and I fail every time."
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"The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting."
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"In those same 10 years, women are getting more and more of the graduate degrees, more and more of the undergraduate degrees, and it's translating into more women in entry-level jobs, even more women in lower-level management. But there's absolutely been no progress at the top. You can't explain away 10 years. Ten years of no progress is no progress."
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"I don't hold myself out as a role model. I don't believe that everyone should make the same choices; that everyone has to want to be a CEO, or everyone should want to be a work-at-home mother. I want everyone to be able to choose. But I want us to be able to choose unencumbered by gender choosing for us."
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"I spent most of my career, including my time at McKinsey, never acknowledging that I was a woman. And, you know, fast forward - I'm 43 now - fitting in is not helping us."
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"I just believed. I believed that the technology would change people's lives. I believed putting real identity online - putting technology behind real identity - was the missing link."
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"I am saying that I was able to mold those hours around the needs of my family, and that matters. And I really encourage other people at Facebook to mold hours around themselves."
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"There is no such thing as work-life balance. There is work, there is life, and there is no balance."
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"I think now is our time. My mother was told by everyone that she had two choices: She could be a nurse or a teacher. The external barriers now are just so much lower. If we start acknowledging what the real issues are, we can solve them. It's not that hard."
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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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"Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back."
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"Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I'm pretty sure that would be a better world."
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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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"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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"What I tell everyone, and I really do for myself is, I have a long-run dream, which is I want to work on stuff that I think matters."
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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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"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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"I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple."
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"I want to tell any young girl out there who's a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder."
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"I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments."
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