In the words of Sheryl Sandberg:
In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
I want my daughter to have the choice not just to succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.
The time is long overdue to encourage more women to dream the possible dream.
Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.
Grief affects job performance, so giving workers time off to grieve can lead to stronger outcomes at work.
It's hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
Facebook is a really exciting place trying to do something really important that I really believe in. And it matters.
The upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
The most important thing we're doing differently is that we talk openly about gender at Facebook.
Social media has created a historical shift from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. Now everyone has a voice.
When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.
It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of pregnancy or gender. It is not illegal to talk about it.
As a country and as a world, we are not comfortable with women in leadership roles. We call little girls bossy.
The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.
Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it's the biggest career decision you can make.
Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.
I believe we need affordable child care. I believe we need flexibility. I believe we need institutional reform and public policy reform.
Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.
We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
The most important thing is to have a more open and honest dialogue about gender issues.
There's no easy path through grief and trauma. Learning from the experiences of people who'd been through similar losses was helpful.
Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment-and freely choose one, or the other, or both.
The reason I don't have a plan is because if I have a plan I'm limited to today's options.
The most important career decision you'll make is who your life partner is.
The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting.
When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.
Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.
Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
Guilt management can be just as important as time management for mothers.
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.
I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.
No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential.
A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.
Don't make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you're not even conscious you're making.
Coming from Google, you don't exactly spend a lot of time at Microsoft.
Let's have an honest conversation about what's going on. A man and a man at a bar looks like mentoring. A man and a woman at a bar looks like dating.
No one gets to the top, if they sit on the sidelines, or if they don't believe in themselves.
Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
We have to ask ourselves if we have become so focused on supporting personal choices that we're failing to encourage women to aspire to leadership.
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