Lean In Quotes

“Mentorships often occur between people with common interests or backgrounds, which means men most often mentor men. This creates a shortage with woman mentors, and leaders need to be aware of this and encourage male leaders to widen their circle.”
― Natalie Thompson, Lean In: A Summary of Sheryl Sandberg's Book

“There is one trick that helps when you don’t feel confident, just fake it. This is backed up by research that states that when a person assumes a power pose for two minutes their dominance hormone levels go up and their stress hormone levels go down.”
― Natalie Thompson, Lean In: A Summary of Sheryl Sandberg's Book

“Another source of a mentor is a peer. A person at the same level can give meaningful feedback and advice.”
― Natalie Thompson, Lean In: A Summary of Sheryl Sandberg's Book

“What would I do if I weren’t afraid?”
― Thompson, Natalie, Lean In: A Summary of Sheryl Sandberg's Book

“One positive move would be for managers to seek out qualified female candidates to hire and promote. They can also invest more in the recruiting of these female candidates plus their mentoring and helping them get the experience they need. The battle between the stay-at-home moms and the career moms needs to stop. Each group should stop judging each other and causing guilt trips. Those women who have decided to stay at home and raise a family should not be looked down upon by the career women. Career women with families need not feel like the stay-at-home mothers and feminism both are making them feel guilty. Each group needs to be respectful of the other and their contributions. As more women attain senior positions of leadership, things will change. These women will raise the ceiling and the floor. This book was written to encourage women to dream big. It is also hoped that men will do their part to support women in their careers and in the workplace. While many women may not be focused on getting to the top, if more women lean in then conditions for all women will improve. Sheryl Sandberg looks forward to a world where her children and others, both boys and girls, will be able to make the choice of what to do with their lives without obstacles, both internal and external, slowing them down.”
― Thompson, Natalie, Lean In: A Summary of Sheryl Sandberg's Book

“Chapter 11: Working Together Toward Equality For a long time, the focus has been on making sure women have the choice of working outside the home or in the home. The fact that women have this right is celebrated. The question now is, are we so focused upon the issue of personal choice that we’re failing to encourage women to go for positions of senior leadership? Men and women both need to support each other. Women have not always been there supporting each other, and many times women have actually done the opposite. When Marissa Mayer was named CEO of Yahoo, she was in her third trimester of pregnancy. She announced that her maternity leave would be a few weeks long, and she would be working throughout it. Many feminists were upset with her, arguing that Marissa was “hurting the cause by setting up unreasonable expectations.” Whatever women decided for themselves as far as leave should be fully supported. Sometimes women who are already in power become obstacles to more women gaining power. This was especially true in the days of tokenism, when women would look around and see that only one woman would be allowed to climb the ladder into the senior management. Women can view other women as rivals and treat them with hostility, or undermine them, ignore them, or even sabotage them.”
― Thompson, Natalie, Lean In: A Summary of Sheryl Sandberg's Book