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41 " Leadership is volunteering at the local school, speaking encouraging words to a friend, and holding the hand of a dying parent. "
― Abby Wambach , WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game
42 " CALL TO THE WOLFPACK: Try. Fail. Feel it burn. Then transform Failure into your Fuel. "
43 " At a young age I learned that you own labels by defying them, and defy them by owning them. I know that the final word on me will be one that I choose. "
― Abby Wambach , Forward: A Memoir
44 " Here's what's imporant: You are allowed to be dissapointed when it feels like life's benched you. What you aren't allowed to do is miss your opportunity to lead from the bench. If you're not a leader on the bench, don't call yourself a leader on the field. You're either a leader everywhere or nowhere. "
45 " Her victory is your victory. Celebrate with her. Your victory is her victory. Point to her. "
46 " Believe in yourselves.Stand up and say:GIVE ME THE EFFING BALL.GIVE ME THE EFFING JOB.GIVE ME THE SAME PAY THAT THE GUY NEXT TO ME GETS.GIVE ME THE PROMOTION.GIVE ME THE MICROPHONE.GIVE ME THE OVAL OFFICE.GIVE ME THE RESPECT I DESERVE - AND GIVE IT TO MY WOLFPACK, TOO. "
47 " Old Rule: Lead with dominance. Create Followers.New Rule: Lead with humanity. Cultivate Leaders. "
48 " Old Rule: Play it safe. Pass the ball. New Rule: Believe in yourself. Demand the ball. "
49 " They laid that new path—brick by brick—for generations of wolves to follow. "
50 " Be grateful AND loud. "
51 " When you stand up and demand the ball, you give others permission to do the same. "
52 " GIVE ME THE RESPECT I DESERVE— AND GIVE IT TO MY WOLFPACK, TOO. "
53 " Your speech is our new bedtime story. "
54 " No one has ever spoken to me like that in my life, and I gratefully internalize every word. I'm tired of hearing about my talent and am desperate to know my flaws; I want to corner and confront them and coax them into improvement. I want to be better, if only because being better ensures more attention. "
55 " One of the like-minded, badass women I've been speaking to offers a metaphor that perfectly captures this moment in my life. We're talking about retirement and transitions, the challenges involved in letting go of the only work and life you've ever known. Trapeze artists are so amazing in so many ways, she says, because they are grounded to one rung for a long time, and in order to get to the other rung they have to let go. What makes them so brilliant and beautiful and courageous and strong is that they execute flips in the middle. The middle is their magic. And if you're brave enough to let go of that first rung, she concludes, you can create your own magic in the middle. "
56 " I meditate with my mala beads and ask myself hard questions: "Can I accept responsability for the things that happened, the things I created? Can I accept responsability for the hurt I've caused? That's why people get divorced--because they can't deal with the sad feelings they created. And until you can get right and accept the fact that you've shattered somebody, that you've broken their heart in more ways than one, there's no way that you've ever going to be able to survive. "
57 " What keeps the pay gap in existence is not just the entitlement and complicity of men. It’s the gratitude of women. Our gratitude is how power uses the tokenism of a few women to keep the rest of us in line. "
58 " CALL TO THE WOLFPACK: Believe in yourselves. Stand up and say: GIVE ME THE EFFING BALL. GIVE ME THE EFFING JOB. GIVE ME THE SAME PAY THAT THE GUY NEXT TO ME GETS. GIVE ME THE PROMOTION. GIVE ME THE MICROPHONE. "
59 " Old Rule: Be grateful for what you have.New Rule: Be grateful for what you have AND demand what you deserve. "
60 " President Obama recently called me and my teammates "badass" and I feel entirely unworthy of the term... Five months ago at the World Cup final, my wife Sarah and I made international news with a celebration kiss, and now she isn't speaking to me. We'd renovated a beautiful, sprawling house tucked in the hills outside of Portland, Oregon, and I can't consider it home. I'm thirty-five years old and had planned on being pregnant by now. My body feels like a foreign object and I am desperate to escape my own mind. "