Sheryl Sandberg

“We need to create areas to come together, where we can be there for each other.”

“Judaism is my home. Judaism is super important to me, in death and in life.”

“At Facebook, we try to be a strengths-based organization, which means we try to make jobs fit around people rather than make people fit around jobs. We focus on what people's natural strengths are and spend our management time trying to find ways for them to use those strengths every day.”

“I go around the room and ask people, 'What do you think?'”

“Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that - whatever success they have, that same success - to their own core skills.”

“Kids are resilient. My kids are resilient.”

“When you're more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.”

“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.”

“It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.”

“Self-compassion is how we recover.”

“What would you do if you weren't afraid?”

“What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That's what the research shows. As a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less.”

“Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend.”

“When I wrote 'Lean In,' some people argue that I did not spend enough time writing about the difficulties women face when they don't have a partner. They were right.”

“When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her.”

“You can date whoever you want, but you should marry the nerds and the good guys.”

“I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.”

“Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.”

“I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.”

“We have to work on treating ourselves like we would treat our friends.”