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"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."
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"If a moneyed man had a "corny mind, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!"
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"A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!"
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"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."
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"An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!"
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"Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!"
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"Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the time people's values are irrational and absurd!"
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"A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!"
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"Governments stand because people sit; if people stand, governments will sit!"
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"It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right."
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"For breakfast to be called 'in bed' instead of 'on top of a bed,' the house in which it is about to be eaten has to have at least two rooms (excluding the kitchen); (at least) three, if it has a bathroom."
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"I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide."
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"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."
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"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."
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"If we push hard now, this next wave can be the last wave. In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders."
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"Communication works best when we combine appropriateness with authenticity, finding that sweet spot where opinions are not brutally honest but delicately honest."
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"Feedback is an opinion, grounded in observations and experiences, which allows us to know what impression we make on others."
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"The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home."
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"Done is better than perfect."
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"Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about."
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"Women can enter (...) negotiations with the knowledge that showing concern for the common good, even as they negotiate for themselves, will strengthen their position."
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