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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

by Sheryl Sandberg

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Feb 04, 2022 03:06PM

“If you’re the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you’re that kind of person, you’ll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for something that never happens. Then, you die a boring old man.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad

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“Is there anywhere that you feel like you can be your full self?” I ask. “No!” she yells, slapping the table and laughing. It’s a huge, contagious laugh, and it cuts through the noise of the bar. A few college kids look over at us. “Never! I don’t think I’ve ever been my full self anywhere. I don’t even think that’s a thing.”
― Melissa Faliveno, Tomboyland: Essays

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“I don’t understand why the world insists on stuffing kids into boxes we never asked for, and then gets mad when we won’t stay there.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

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“What happens during a moment of intimacy is complicated and confusing. When we put it under a spotlight in a court of law, we discover that, a lot of the time, there is no black and white. Just shades of gray.”
― Megan Goldin, The Night Swim

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