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“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.”

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

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

“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.”

Feminism Lean In

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

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

“Our answer to lean-in feminism is kick-back feminism. We have no interest in breaking the glass ceiling while leaving the vast majority to clean up the shards. Far from celebrating women CEOs who occupy corner offices, we want to get rid of CEOs and corner offices.”

Political Feminism Ceo Neoliberalism Intersectionality Glass Ceiling Lean In

Book:Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

Source: Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

“Fully compatible with ballooning inequality, liberal feminism outsources oppression. It permits professional-managerial women to lean in precisely by enabling them to lean on the poorly paid migrant women to whom they subcontract their caregiving and housework.”

Political Feminism Labour Disparity Neoliberalism Intersectionality Income Inequality Global South Lean In

Book:Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

Source: Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

“Its love affair with individual advancement equally permeates the world of social-media celebrity, which also confuses feminism with the ascent of individual women. In that world, “feminism” risks becoming a trending hashtag and a vehicle of self-promotion, deployed less to liberate the many than to elevate the few.”

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Book:Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

Source: Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

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

World Graduates Better Lean In Sheryl Sandberg

Book:Lean In for Graduates

Source: Lean In for Graduates

“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.”

Women Feminism Lean In Sheryl Sandberg Ban Bossy

Author:Sheryl Sandberg in "Lean In"