Sheryl Sandberg Quotes

There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

I think what Sheryl Sandberg said about the importance of 'leaning in' is very true, but it's not sufficient.

That's something I've been conscious of and want to make true in all jobs I do. It's important we have women at the front and centre.

The executive female talent gap is real, and that's why it's critical to champion women throughout their careers.

The culture of tech companies cannot change if women aren't in the room.

By the time I sold Birmingham City football club in 2009, 75% of the directors were women, which I take great pride in - that's unique in business, full stop.

Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.

The organization that I joined when I went to work, the trade association called the Bureau of Advertising, became the first of many over the years in which I was the only woman.

I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.

I'd love to work on a real girl piece with some fabulous actresses. I feel like I've worked with so many men.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.

The women executives in the film industry have the power to say, 'No,' but few of them have the power to say, 'Yes.'

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

The term 'glass ceiling' was coined in 1984. More than 20 years later, the ceiling has barely cracked. There isn't a single country in the world that has as many female as male politicians. In business, the situation is even worse. Its highest echelon - the board - remains a chauvinist's dream.

We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.

We're way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs.

Four out of five HSN corporate officers are women. I'm a believer that a diversity of mindset enables us to have an engaged conversation.

I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

I would love to be directed by more women.

When I was made CEO of Reynolds the first time, someone asked me what it was like to be a female CEO. But I said, 'I don't know what its like to be a male CEO, so I can't really answer that question.'

I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie.

I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.