Sheryl Sandberg Quotes

The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.

Physical, emotional, psychological and social differences [between the sexes] exist and dare not be disregarded.

Boys and girls are not the same.

There is a mindset that has to be changed - the sense of entitlement of the man. That happens when you are bringing up someone. If you are going to differentiate between a boy and a girl from age zero, then he is bound to grow up with the sense of entitlement.

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

We are in effect enculturating kids from the very beginning to see women and girls as not taking up half of the space.

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.

Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that's partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.

For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

You've got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real differences.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.

Parenting girls makes you quite gender-conscious - it's almost impossible to fight the power of pink. It's not such a terrible thing to want to be a princess when you're five, but it would be nice if there were some other options.

There is no longer a doubt that women are just as competent as men. Gender differences are guided by nurture, as society treats boys and girls differently from an early age.

There are those who believe that the existence of gender differences at very early ages is evidence that these differences are biological or generic in origin.

I think that there is a difference between men and women as a warrior and a nurturer... It's innate.

We're really taught to be followers from a very young age - men lead and women follow.

I don't think anyone is saying that we should be treating boys and girls exactly the same and that we should try to eliminate all differences. What the psychologists who do this work are saying is we should be aware of it and careful about it, especially if we think it could be limiting choices.

Despite the efforts of some parents, children still tend to act out the traditional sex roles of our culture. The child's peer group may have more of an influence over this than the parents.

Men and women study things differently, and it's not because of our chromosomes. It's a product of our cultural conditioning.