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"I've seen over and over how much self-belief drives outcomes. And that's why I force myself to sit at the table, even when I am not sure I belong there - and yes, this still happens to me. And when I'm not sure anyone wants my opinion, I take a deep breath and speak up anyway."
"Let's have an honest conversation about what's going on. A man and a man at a bar looks like mentoring. A man and a woman at a bar looks like dating."
"What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That's what the research shows. As a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less."
"Grief affects job performance, so giving workers time off to grieve can lead to stronger outcomes at work."
"The reason I don't have a plan is because if I have a plan I'm limited to today's options."
"It's pretty exciting to take real people living in the real world, their opinions, and have people have to react to that. As opposed to their perceptions of what people are thinking, which are often very different."
"Guilt management can be just as important as time management for mothers."
"When you're more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work."
"I want my daughter to have the choice not just to succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments."
"The best decision I ever made was to marry Dave."
"Go to a playground: Little girls get called 'bossy' all the time, a word that's almost never used for boys. And that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce. When a man does a good job, everyone says, 'That's great.' When a woman does that same thing, she'll get feedback that says things like, 'Your results are good, but your peers just don't like you as much' or 'maybe you were a little aggressive.'"
"I would be better at my job if I were technical."
"Men can comfortably claim credit for what they do as long as they don't veer into arrogance. For women, taking credit comes at a real social and professional cost."
"Success for me is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she is cheered on and supported."
"Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment-and freely choose one, or the other, or both."
"I wish I were strong enough to ignore what others say, but experience tells me I often can't. Allowing myself to feel upset, even really upset, and then move on - that's something I can do."
"And what I saw happening is that women don't make one decision to leave the workforce. They makes lots of little decisions really far in advance that kind of inevitably lead them there."
"It turns out that a husband who does the laundry, it's very romantic when you're older. And it's hard to believe when you're younger. But it's absolutely true."
"Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity."
"I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books."