Sheryl Sandberg Quotes

I'm not writing about things other women do. I'm writing for other women to have more self-confidence because I need it myself! And if more women were in power, I would feel more comfortable.

There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.

We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.

Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders.

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

We don't need to be men in skirts to have a role in politics. Women can be leaders by being sensitive women.

What I see around the management team meetings and the conference tables I sit at is that there isn't that same comfort level in other women who are rising the ranks. And I don't know how to fix that.

Women shouldn't aspire to a box or a title. They should look toward being leaders.

Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.

I'm not just a female chef. I'm a woman in a brand new hotel, and that's why I think it's so perfect to be at the Cromwell, in a corner of one of the busiest intersections of the world, with my name in lights. It's different in all those sorts of ways, and I'm hoping I'll be able to carry that through. Because if I can't, it's a step back for women in general. People will say - men will say - "See, that's why it's mostly men".

Women are no longer victims. They have become leaders. They are at the forefront of the demonstrations. We will share a role in all aspects of life, side by side with men.

We don't think about women being leaders.

I have led the way for moving women from traditional roles to strategic positions and inspired girls and women throughout Africa to seek leadership positions.

I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.

My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can.

We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.

There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.

It used to be only on TV that women could lead, that a show could be based on a woman.

Technology may be traditionally perceived as a male-dominated industry, but it won't always be that way. Every day we see more and more powerful women leaders boasting outstanding achievements.

I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.

In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top.

The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

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.