Quotes from Sheryl Sandberg

Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.

People who are underprivileged have more to grieve and have more to overcome.

We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women's voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.

The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

We need to talk more openly about mentorships and sponsorships. Women don't get the mentoring, and particularly the sponsors, they need to succeed as much as men.

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.

A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.

Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized.

Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.

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.

Women need to shift form thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it.

I'm not writing about things other women do. I'm writing for other women to have more self-confidence because I need it myself! And if more women were in power, I would feel more comfortable.

I'm a feminist because I believe in women... it's a heavy word, feminism, but it's not one I think we should run from. I'm proud to be a feminist.

Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.

Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I'm pretty sure that would be a better world.

Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that - whatever success they have, that same success - to their own core skills.

Its time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table

I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.

No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential.

I want women to get paid more. I want to teach them to negotiate so they get paid more.

And what I saw happening is that women don't make one decision to leave the workforce. They makes lots of little decisions really far in advance that kind of inevitably lead them there.

Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment-and freely choose one, or the other, or both.