When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.
SHERYL SANDBERGAnd anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
More Sheryl Sandberg Quotes
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When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.
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Feeling confident – or pretending that you feel confident – is necessary to reach for opportunities. It’s a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they’re seized.
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It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.
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I don’t pretend there aren’t biological differences, but I don’t believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it’s socialization, that we’re socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead.
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There is no perfect fit when you’re looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.
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I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, ‘Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.’ I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it’s not that simple.
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I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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It’s more pressure on women to – if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.
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We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.
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When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
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The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
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When you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.
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Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.
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Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.
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