Sheryl Sandberg Quotes

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.

Society has always been male; political power has always been in the hands of men.

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

I figured I could do 'It's A Man's Man's Man's World', because I believe it's the truth.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

I've always liked men better than women.

This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

No, feminism isn't 'over.' We need it not only to challenge injustice but because the whole gender expectations thing is bad for men, too.

[Referring to Jesse Jackson:] ... one of that machismo group.

We are still uneasy with women and power…For a man to be ruthless, he has to be like Joe McCarthy. For a woman, she just has to put somebody on hold.

Patriarchy is a political system just like colonialism was a political system.

I would consider myself one of the least misogynistic men in the country - if anything, just the opposite.

Sexism is real.

Machistas are out of style.

I think if we took away that toxic masculinity then the world would be a much better place.

To empower women, power must be given to them, presumably by an entity that already has it. And that entity is the patriarchy. This also implies that women must be on the receiving end, waiting - politely - to be empowered. Very Victorian-era courtship, isn't it?

No man wants to lose to a woman.

I'm a massive feminist, but I think it's a little unfair on the other sex saying they're not in it to change the world.

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don't know if it's ever not somewhere.

Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women. It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in it.