you can’t please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren’t making enough progress. Mark was right. - Sheryl Sandberg

We are each unique … which is why it is so wrong to be lumped together by stereotypes or viewed with narrowed expectations based on skin color or chromosomes. The irony is that dealing with this prejudice becomes our shared experience.

When I wrote Lean In, some people argued that I did not spend enough time writing about the difficulties women face when they don’t have a partner. They were right. I didn’t get it. I didn’t get how hard it is to succeed at work when you are overwhelmed at home. I wrote a chapter titled “Make Your Partner a Real Partner” about the importance of couples splitting child care and housework 50/50. Now I see how insensitive and unhelpful this was to so many single moms

women are not thinking about ‘having it all,’ they’re worried about losing it all — their jobs, their children’s health, their families’ financial stability — because of the regular conflicts that arise between being a good employee and a responsible parent.”34