Best 10 quotes in «lean in quotes» category

I realized that searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming. We all grew up on the fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty," which instructs young women that if they just wait for their prince to arrive, they will be kissed and whisked away on a white horse to live happily ever after. Now young women are told that if they can just find the right mentor, they will be pushed up the ladder and whisked away to the corner office to live happily ever after. Once again, we are teaching women to be too dependent on others.

A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes. I believe that this would be a better world.

[Eric Schmidt] explained that only one criterion that mattered when picking a job- fat growth. When companies grow quickly, there are more things to do than there are people to do them. When companies grow more slowly or stop growing, there is less to do and too many people to not be doing them. Politics and stagnation set in, and everyone falters, He told me, "If you're offered a seat on a rocket sip, you don't ask what seat. You just get on.

Give us a world where half our homes are run by men, and half our institutions are run by women. I'm pretty sure that would be a better world.

But knowing that things could be worse should not stop us from trying to make them better.

Still, my argument was that if she was going to work for the next 30 years, what difference does "going back" 4 years really make? If the other path made her happier and offered her a chance to learn new skills, that meant she was actually moving forward.

Show me a woman without guilt and I'll show you a man

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.

We are most effective when we are able to lean in fully to the resource of the other people in our lives.

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