Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment-and freely choose one, or the other, or both. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“If a woman is competent, she does not seem nice enough. If a woman seems really nice, she is considered more nice… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Looking back, it made no sense for my college friends and me to distance ourselves from the hard-won achievements of earlier feminists.… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Despite being high achievers, even experts in their fields, women can't seem to shake the sense that it is only a matter… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
As women get more powerful, they get less likable. I see women holding themselves back because of this, but if we start… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Men have an easier time finding the mentors and sponsors who are invaluable for career progression. Plus, women have to prove themselves… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I look forward to the day when half our homes are run by men and half our companies and institutions are run… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“This is the ultimate chicken and the egg situation. The chicken: Women will tear down the external barriers once we achieve leadership… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential. This is especially true of science and… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“First, women must come across as being nice, concerned about others, and “appropriately” female. When women take a more instrumental approach (“This… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“I believe women can lead more in the workplace. I believe men can contribute more in the home. And I believe that… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Every woman I know, particularly the senior ones, has been called too aggressive at work. We know in gender blind studies that… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
We have a problem with women in leadership across the board. This leadership gap - this problem of not enough women in… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“The researchers speculated that men in traditional marriages are not overtly hostile toward women but instead are “benevolent sexists”—holding positive yet outdated… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
People think that women don't negotiate because they're not good negotiators, but that's not it. Women don't negotiate because it doesn't work… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“The success and likability penalty is imposed by both men and women. Women perpetuate this bias as well. (...) Calling attention to… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“If a woman pushes to get the job done, if she's highly competent, if she focuses on results rather than on pleasing… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“But instead of blaming women for not negotiating more, we need to recognize that women often have good cause to be reluctant… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
People assume Wall Street is a certain culture and tech is a certain culture. But if you look at the (gender) numbers… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
We know that the only way to achieve equality is if both men and women want to achieve equality. We also know… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Every company I know is looking for more women at the table. Every board is looking for more women at the table.… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time - a word that's… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I believe if we had half our companies and half our countries run by women, and half our homes run by men,… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
We've ceased making progress at the top in any industry anywhere in the world . In the United States, women have had… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Aggressive and hard-charging women violate unwritten rules about acceptable social conduct. Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful,… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Sixty-four percent of managers in the U.S. are afraid to be alone in a room with a woman. Mentoring is all about… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“But knowing that things could be worse should not stop us from trying to make them better. When the suffragettes marched in… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
In our performance reviews with women, we need to be saying, "Are you reaching enough? Are you applying for jobs when you… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
A woman, if you're Most Intelligent or Most Likely to Succeed, that's an embarrassing thing. Or something that's not considered attractive, and… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“HAVING IT ALL.” Perhaps the greatest trap ever set for women was the coining of this phrase. Bandied about in speeches, headlines,… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes. I… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
The more women help one another, the more we help ourselves. Acting like a coalition truly does produce results. Any coalition of… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Of Yale alumni who had reached their forties by 2000, only 56 percent of the women remained in the workforce, compared with… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Still, my argument was that if she was going to work for the next 30 years, what difference does "going back" 4 years really… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
“Reverend Veronica Goines sums this up as, “Peace is joy at rest, and joy is peace on its feet.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
“[Eric Schmidt] explained that only one criterion that mattered when picking a job- fat growth. When companies grow quickly, there are more things to… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
Go to a playground: Little girls get called 'bossy' all the time, a word that's almost never used for boys. And that leads directly… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
“One of my favorite quotes comes from author Alice Walker, who observed, “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
Aggressive and hard-charging women violate unwritten rules about acceptable social conduct. Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful, but women… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
“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… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
“Survivor guilt is a thief of joy—yet another secondary loss from death.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
I am a bigger-picture manager because I've lived through something that's a big picture. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
Men can comfortably claim credit for what they do as long as they don't veer into arrogance. For women, taking credit comes at a… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
“As Helen Keller put it, “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
“Forty percent of employed mothers lack sick days and vacation leave, and about 50 percent of employed mothers are unable to take time off… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share
