Sheryl Sandberg Quotes

When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

The difference between men and women seems to be this: I can argue with my promoter downstairs, accuse him of ripping me off, and 20 minutes later we'll be playing golf together. With a lady, the same argument can go on for, like, years.

I've thought long and hard about this, and I think a lot of the dysfunction around dating has to do with men having the control.

If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled.

Men have to be hooked. Women don't need that. Women go freely into anything. That's their power and at the same time their drawback. Men have to be led and women have to be contained

I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.

Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.

We were raised to pursue women... Most of the guys I know enjoy the pursuit. But that doesn't mean women should be wallflowers.

All women like to look up to their men.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

It's easy for guys to listen to another guy for support, but if it's a female, they seem to shy away from it, like they don't want to be a sucker, you know what I'm saying? So we kind of got to go harder.

I actually think women are stronger and more capable than men, that men are actually dancing in the palms of women, who are running the show.

Who asks who out on the date? Who's supposed to pay for dinner? Who chooses where you go? Both partners should be involved in these discussions. If we want to be treated as equals, don't put yourself in a position where you set yourself up to not be equal.

Our society really needs to take a better look at what we're selling, because I think women being empowered will be as beneficial to men as it is to us.

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.

It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It's the way we talk about and treat one another. It's who makes the money and who makes the compromises and who makes dinner. It's a state of mind. It's the way we live now.

The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman. We celebrate strength--in our partners as well as in ourselves.

I just can't see either a man or a woman in a dependency position, because from this sort of relationship flows a feeling of superiority on one side and inferiority on the other, and that's a form of slow poison. As I see it, men wouldn't want somebody inferior to them unless they felt inadequate themselves. They're intimidated by a mature woman.

Maleness in America is not absolutely defined; it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the definition is beating women in every game that both sexes play.

Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill and never got off.