If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“It is a painful truth that one of the obstacles to more women gaining power has sometimes been women already in power.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“the ambition to lean in to your career and run the world. Because the world needs you to change it. Women all… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Our aspirations are really for women to be in half the leadership roles and men to be doing half the work of… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“A 2011 McKinsey report noted that men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on past accomplishments.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work… — 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
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
“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
“(...) just being nice is not a winning strategy. Nice sends a message that the woman is willing to sacrifice pay to… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Let's acknowledge that men reach for opportunities more quickly and more easily than women. So often as managers, we give the job… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Anyone who brings up gender in the workplace is wading into deep and muddy waters. The subject itself presents a paradox, forcing… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Often without realising it, women internalise disparaging cultural attitudes and then echo them back. As a result, women are not just victims… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“This helps explain why for many women, speaking honestly in a professional environment carries an additional set of fears: Fear of not… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Professor Gruenfeld was able to explain the price women pay for success. “Our entrenched cultural ideas associate men with leadership qualities and… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Go to a playground: Little girls get called 'bossy' all the time, a word that's almost never used for boys. And that… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Millennial women are less likely than Millennial men to agree that the statement "I aspire to a leadership role in whatever field… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
In those same 10 years, women are getting more and more of the graduate degrees, more and more of the undergraduate degrees,… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Now we know that women can do what men can do, but we don't know that men can do what women can… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Give us a world where half our homes are run by men, and half our institutions are run by women. I'm pretty… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I think it is too hard for men to talk about gender. We have to let men talk about this... because we… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment-and freely choose one, or the other, or both. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Professional ambition is expected of men but is optional—or worse, sometimes even a negative—for women. “She is very ambitious” is not a… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“Conditions for all women will improve when there are more women in leadership roles giving strong and powerful voice to their needs… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
We have to ask ourselves if we have become so focused on supporting personal choices that we're failing to encourage women to… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“As activist Marlo Thomas wryly joked on Equal Pay Day 2011, “Forty years and eighteen cents. A dozen eggs have gone up… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves. — 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. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
We need to talk more openly about mentorships and sponsorships. Women don't get the mentoring, and particularly the sponsors, they need to… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I'm a feminist because I believe in women... it's a heavy word, feminism, but it's not one I think we should run… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“A feminist is someone who believes in social, political, and economic equality of the sexes.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Women need to shift form thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn… — 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
