Quotes from Sheryl Sandberg

Kids are resilient. My kids are resilient.

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

It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.

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 think when tragedy occurs, it presents a choice. You can give in to the void: the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even breathe. Or you can try to find meaning.

When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed.

I don't believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time.

We all have shortcomings.

There's no one way to grieve, and there's no one path.

As women get more powerful, they get less likable. I see women holding themselves back because of this, but if we start talking about the success-likability penalty women face, then we can do something about it.

I am a bigger-picture manager because I've lived through something that's a big picture.

Everyone needs more support than they are getting.

Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she's cheered on and supported.

I learned that when life pulls you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface, and breathe again.

Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend.

I have never met a woman, or man, who stated emphatically, "Yes, I have it all.'" Because no matter what any of us has—and how grateful we are for what we have—no one has it all.

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.

My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history.

The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.

Communication works best when we combine appropriateness with authenticity, finding that sweet spot where opinions are not brutally honest but delicately honest.

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

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.

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.

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.