Sheryl Sandberg Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Daughter, Mother, Home

• Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Daughter, Mother, Roots

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.33, Knopf

• I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Daughter, Mother, Believe

  "Why we have too few women leaders". Sheryl Sandberg at TEDWomen 2010, www.ted.com. December 2010.

• I think now is our time. My mother was told by everyone that she had two choices: She could be a nurse or a teacher. The external barriers now are just so much lower. If we start acknowledging what the real issues are, we can solve them. It's not that hard.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Mother, Teacher, Real

  "'Now Is Our Time'". Harvard Business Review interview, hbr.org. April 2013.

• For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Grandmother

  "A Woman’s Place" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. July 11 & 18, 2011.

• Guilt management can be just as important as time management for mothers.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Mother, Guilt, Important

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.147, Knopf

• 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.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Mother, Believe, Home

• 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 is cheered on and supported.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Daughter, Mother, Home

  "Moms Lean In... Or Not". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 12, 2013.

• 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, Believe, Teaching

  "FACEBOOK COO SANDBERG: The Women Of My Generation Blew It, So Equality Is Up To You, Graduates" by Sheryl Sandberg, www.businessinsider.com. May 18, 2011.

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