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“I'm a geek, I like to code, I even like to use spreadsheets when I cook.”

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Marissa Mayer is an American engineer and businesswoman, best known for her role as the CEO of Yahoo! from 2012 to 2017. She has a background in computer science and has made significant contributions to the tech industry. more

“'Our parents' generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and then they had to, you know, try to pick up the pieces of their lives and bring up their children. And, it was a great example for us. I guess we grew up with a certain amount of the ethics our parents had, which is, you know: work hard, make your own way, be independent.”

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Author:Billy Joel

“What Steve Jobs and I did-and at the same time Bill Gates and Paul Allen did-we had no savings accounts, no friends that could loan us money. But we had ideas, and I wanted all my life to be a part of a revolution.”

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Author:Steve Wozniak

“I saw my future. I pictured it, but didn't quite know how to get there. But I knew that I should never give up.”

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Author:Tommy Hilfiger

“My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.”

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Author:Amy Tan

“I think about Marvin Gaye and 'Sexual Healing.' What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that music.”

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Author:Eve Ensler

“I was raised by a formidable woman. She always pushed me to be competitive in a man's world. That's maybe one of the attractions to journalism in the beginning. It was a male profession, and I was comfortable in that.”

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Author:Maria Shriver

“One of the most important things for any leader is to never let anyone else define who you are. And you define who you are. I never think of myself as being a woman CEO of this company. I think of myself as a steward of a great institution.”

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Author:Ginni Rometty

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