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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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"We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel". Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor"."

"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."

"I don't pretend there aren't biological differences, but I don't believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it's socialization, that we're socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead."

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

"Writing about joyful experiences for just three days can improve people's moods and decrease their visits to health centers a full three months later."

"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."

"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."

"But while compliant, raise-your-hand-and-speak-when-called-on behaviors might be rewarded in school, they are less valued in the workplace."

"Feeling threatened by others' choices pulls us all down. Instead, we should funnel our energy into breaking this cycle."
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"Don't surrender your life to a Face, a Farce, a Fence or a Force. Don't be a Slave, be Brave."

"We ought to live the fullness of life."

"Stand tall like a tower."

"When we give up our dreams then we are merely existing and not living."

"Any dream is a possibility."

"The promise of the future is only possible when the price is paid in full and in advance."

"If you try you would never be alone, because the whole world is tired of loneliness."

"Without enthusiasm then what we have surrounded ourselves with becomes worthless."

"Do not let the temporal pain of discipline you need to acquire knowledge stop you from acquiring it."

"You can start now and create a great future."
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