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A 2011 McKinsey report noted that men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on past accomplishments.

We should let ourselves react emotionally and feel whatever anger or sadness being criticized evokes for us. And then we should quickly move on.

[T]he real issue was not that I felt like a fraud, but that I could feel something deeply and profoundly and be completely wrong.

It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of pregnancy or gender. It is not illegal to talk about it.

What is your biggest problem, and how can I solve it?

My hope, of course, is that we won't have to play by these archaic rules forever and that eventually we can all just be ourselves.

HAVING IT ALL." Perhaps the greatest trap ever set for women was the coining of this phrase.

A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.

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

We've got to get women to sit at the table.

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

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

Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.

This phenomenon of capable people being plagued by self-doubt has a name---the impostor syndrome.

What would you do if you weren't afraid?

I learned that friendship isn't only what you can give, it's what you're able to receive.

Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just want to be the noun.

As a Facebook summer intern once told me, In my school's computer science department, there are more Daves than girls.

Excel and you will get a mentor.

When you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress.

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

I could challenge the notion that I was constantly headed for failure.

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

These aren't personal questions. They are human questions,

As a country and as a world, we are not comfortable with women in leadership roles. We call little girls bossy.

It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do. Padmasree

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

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.

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.

So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren't afraid? And then go do it.

The reason I don't have a plan is because if I have a plan I'm limited to today's options

It bothered me because like most people who have choices, I am not completely comfortable with mine.

We see the potential for good in others and gain hope that we can survive and rebuild.

Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.

Men feel like they can be a professional and a father. For women it's "or." That's offensive to me. The concept that it's not possible is crazy.

If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can ... and accepting them.

I believe we need affordable child care. I believe we need flexibility. I believe we need institutional reform and public policy reform.

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

You need to feel that you're making a difference.

I truly believe that the single most important career decision that a woman makes is whether she will have a life partner and who that partner is.

( ... ) once a woman achieves success, particularly in a gender-biased context, her capacity to see gender discrimination is reduced.

Let me fall if I must fall. The one I become will catch me." Slowly,

We find our humanity - our will to live and our ability to love - in our connections to one another.

I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.

Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.

There's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.

The path to change is best traveled when we travel together.

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

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.

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.

Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.'

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

As more women lean in to their careers, more men need to lean in to their families. We need to encourage men to be more ambitious in their homes.

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

When I was on the other side, my reply became, "I can't imagine either, but I have no choice." I

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.

The goal of a successful negotiation is to achieve our objectives and continue to have people like us.

A woman needs to combine niceness with insistence, a style that Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan, calls relentlessly pleasant

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

Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.

Women will continue to sacrifice being liked for being successful.

Sad White Babies with Mean Feminist Mommies.

Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.

In many cases, women need to be more open to taking risks in their careers.2

As a child I never thought about what I wanted to be, but I thought a lot about what I wanted to do.

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.

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

Its time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table

Don't be afraid to ask the 'dumb' question, everyone else will be relieved you had the guts to ask!

Not only do we learn more from failure than success, we learn more from bigger failures because we scrutinize them more closely. Long

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

Seeking out diverse experiences is useful preparation for leadership.

Writing this book is not just me encouraging others to lean in. This is me leaning in. Writing this book is what I would do if I weren't afraid.

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.13

Being forthright led to opportunity. Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid sacrifice.

If we can succeed in adding more female voices at the highest levels, we will expand opportunities and extend fairer treatment to all.

No wonder women don't negotiate as often as men. It's like trying to cross a minefield backward in high heels.

I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.

Don't make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you're not even conscious you're making.

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

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,

The simple act of talking openly about behavioral patterns makes the subconscious conscious.

The best decision I ever made was to marry Dave.

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

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

The most important thing - and I've said it a hundred times and I'll say it a hundred times - if you marry a man, marry the right one.

I'm a feminist because I believe in women ... it's a heavy word, feminism, but it's not one I think we should run from. I'm proud to be a feminist.

Build your skills not your resume.

Option A is not available. so let's just kick the shit out of Option B."

Life is never perfect. We all live some form of Option B.

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.

At a certain point, it's your ability to learn quickly and contribute quickly that matters.

We need more men to sit at the table ... at the kitchen table.

Avoiding feelings isn't the same as protecting feelings.

That even in the face of the most shocking tragedy of my life, I could exert some control over its impact.

It is time for us to face that our revolution has stalled.

I should urge more women to believe in themselves and aspire to lead.

Teams that focus on learning from failure outperform those that don't, but not everyone works in an organization that takes the long view.

The ability to listen is as important as the ability to speak.