Sheryl Sandberg Quotes

Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

We often hear of a male director directing a great indie and immediately being offered the next huge comic book movie. Rarely, if ever, does this happen to a woman.

Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

I think a lot of women are underestimated.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes.”

Women have to compensate more in the personality department in order to get the things that men get. And they don't have as much leeway for being divas or jerks.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

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

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy. Sometimes it doesn't stop there.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.

Hmm, can I be obvious and say there is probably a double standard for male vs. female directors? Sadly, I think that's actually the case. And it probably stems from the fact that there are proportionately so many fewer women directors than men ones that each project is perhaps more closely scrutinized for its content.

There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.

Women are liked better when they lose.

We are still living with a double standard. I know it. Every woman I know knows it, whether you're in the media as a woman, or you're in the professions or business or politics.

Women are simply not endowed with the same measure of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed.

If you are a man, you have to be like Joe McCarthy to be called “ruthless”. For a woman, all you have to do is put somebody on hold.

Do I think I am being held to a different standard than a man who would be in this exact same race with the exact same story? Might be? Yes. But that’s reality.

I think, being a woman, we got to prove ourselves twice.

The more successful you are as a man, the more you're liked. And the more successful you are as a woman, the more you're disliked.