Sheryl Sandberg Quotes

I don't know if I'm sexist, though I have not paid much attention to the women's bracket.

I found in my experiences that it's not that men are consciously discriminating against promoting women, but I do believe as people we have self-images about what's good.

When it comes to categorizing people, men and women into a group, it gets to be very dangerous.

In my opinion it is a grave error for women to feel that they must move only in women's interests... . What, after all, would we think if men all got together and kept doing things that were supposed to be in the interest of men?

The man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid?

To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.

People don't always want to have females as leaders.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias.

We have all the mistakes of one-sex legislation.

It is a fight between those who are convinced that women are not qualified to be judges – you’ll hear a hundred justifications for this – and the few that are enlightened, convinced that women can be judges. But they are powerless.

Micro sexism can grow into a much greater problem.

Misogyny is not something that you want to be a part of.

There is part of you as a female - no question - that feels like you have to be overprepared and outwork the men because people are automatically going to look at you and say, 'Well, you didn't play football,' or, 'You don't know what you're talking about,' because you are a female.

#TimesUp is you can't hold it in anymore: Time's up! The doors have to give way. It can't be that every 27-year-old born into a male body is a designated genius. It can't be that the language used to review male and female films is different.

I think that sexism existents everywhere.

If I can use my platform to affect change in gender, as I can in race, then I think I can have an impact.

A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.

I'm not interested in making movies only with female protagonists. I think it's ridiculous to think that a female director can't direct men. That makes no sense to me.

[On women in previously all-male fields:] I think it will change in a lot of workplaces. I'm not so sure it will ever change on Capitol Hill until more women are in powerful positions. Because this is the last plantation for men.

I think it is absurd to give such tremendous importance to the distinctions between men and women. When I meet someone I regard that person as a human being. I do not say "This is a man; this is a woman."

There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.