There are really good reasons to leave the workforce or work less or take a different job when you want to be with your children. I just want women - and men - to make that choice once they have the child. Not years in advance, because... they don't get the right opportunities. They give up before they even start.
Sheryl SandbergThe best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.
Sheryl SandbergI probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.
Sheryl SandbergDon't make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you're not even conscious you're making.
Sheryl SandbergIf I didn't write in my journal every couple of days, I felt like I was going to burst. Later I learned the research about how important journaling can be to recovering from trauma and grief. That was definitely true for me.
Sheryl SandbergA truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.
Sheryl SandbergAt Facebook we feel a lot of affinity not just for this community but for any community that is trying to do what Davos is trying to do, which is to share information. And Davos is doing it in a particular way - I think the Facebook approach is obviously more broad-based, we're trying to include everyone in the world. But the goal is the same: bring people together, to share information and make the world more connected, and have people have a deeper understanding of themselves, others, the communities of which they want to be a part and can be a part.
Sheryl Sandberg