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" I don't pretend there aren't biological differences, but I don't believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it's socialization, that we're socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead. "

Sheryl Sandberg

Believe

Win

Leadership

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Sheryl Sandberg

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" Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity. "

" I don't believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional, and it is all personal. "

" Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back. "

" I'm not pretending I can give advice to every single person or every single couple for every situation; I'm making the point that we are not going to get to equality in the workforce before we get to equality in the home. Not going to happen. "

" There are so many kids in this country growing up in poverty, facing very, very hard challenges... We need resilience for all of them. "

" I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias. "

" I want to tell any young girl out there who's a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder. "

" I don't hold myself out as a role model. I don't believe that everyone should make the same choices; that everyone has to want to be a CEO, or everyone should want to be a work-at-home mother. I want everyone to be able to choose. But I want us to be able to choose unencumbered by gender choosing for us. "

" I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own. "

" Everyone needs more support than they are getting. "

" When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her. "

Sheryl Sandberg

Mother

Sister

" 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. "

" Writing about joyful experiences for just three days can improve people's moods and decrease their visits to health centers a full three months later. "

" I go around the room and ask people, 'What do you think?' "

Sheryl Sandberg

Think

You

" People think that women don't negotiate because they're not good negotiators, but that's not it. Women don't negotiate because it doesn't work as well for them. Women have to say, 'I really add a lot of value, and it's in your interest to pay me more.' I hate that advice, but I want to see women get ahead. "

" What I tell everyone, and I really do for myself is, I have a long-run dream, which is I want to work on stuff that I think matters. "

" Over the last 10 years, women have stalled out at the top. "

" I believe very deeply that the world would be a better place if it weren't run as it's currently run, which is by men. "

" If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, 'I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?' If you ask women why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard. "

" We all have shortcomings. "

Sheryl Sandberg

Shortcomings

" You can date whoever you want, but you should marry the nerds and the good guys. "

" I think there are things that we can all do to build resilience in ourselves, but also to build resilience in each other. "

" When you suffer a tragedy, the secondary loss of having it bleed into other areas of your life is so real. "

" I would love to meet J.K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her imagination. I read every 'Harry Potter' book as it came out and looked forward to each new one. I am rereading them now with my kids and enjoying them every bit as much. She made me look at jelly beans in a whole new way. "

" 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. "

" I think the U.S. needs a better safety net... If you're a single mum or even a dual-parent working family, what do you do if you've got a sick child? "

" I absolutely loved Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and didn't want it to end. It's hilarious as well as important. Not only did I laugh on every page, but I was nodding along, highlighting and dog-earing like crazy. "

" What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That's what the research shows. As a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less. "