I want my daughter to have the choice not just to succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments. Sheryl Sandberg More Quotes by Sheryl Sandberg More Quotes From Sheryl Sandberg I was grateful that Facebook already had generous bereavement policies . Now Facebook employees receive 20 days paid leave to grieve the loss of an immediate family member and 10 days for an extended family member. I'm proud that we're able to do this and I hope more businesses do the same. Only 60 percent of private sector workers get paid time off after the death of a loved one, and then it's usually just a few days. Workers and families deserve better than that. Sheryl Sandberg grateful loss grieving There's no easy path through grief and trauma. Learning from the experiences of people who'd been through similar losses was helpful. Sheryl Sandberg grief loss people After my husband, Dave, died, I called my friend Adam, a psychologist who studies how people find meaning in our lives, and I asked him what, if anything, I could do to help myself and my kids get through this. We started talking about resilience, then reading about it, then talking to other people who had gotten through grief and other huge challenges. In time, those conversations and that research helped me heal. Sheryl Sandberg husband grief reading If 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 Sandberg couple grief writing The reason I wrote Lean In is I think people weren't actually noticing that we had stopped making progress. I gave a TED talk and said: "It turns out men still run the world." And the audience gasped as if that was news. Sheryl Sandberg running men thinking Grief comes and goes, it ebbs and flows. I think one of the lessons of this for me is that there's no one way to grieve. Everyone does it in their own way, in their own time, and we all process life and its challenges and its ups and downs as they come. Sheryl Sandberg grief grieving thinking I had heard that when people lost people, there was anger. But I definitely experienced it a lot more than I was prepared for it. Anger was not something I'd ever really felt in my life and I was not prepared for it. Sheryl Sandberg people My goal is very clear, and I wrote about it in Lean In, which is that women run half our companies and countries and men run half our homes. As much as I wish that could happen in four years, I don't think that's a likely time period. But I think it can happen sooner than we think. Part of it is having that aspiration and that goal. I think we too often suffer from the tyranny of low expectations. Sheryl Sandberg home running country We're the only developed country in the world that doesn't have paid maternity leave. Paternity leave is just as important. Paid family medical leave so that you can take care of a parent, a child, a grandparent, whatever you need to do. I think we're shortsighted when we don't invest in our employees as companies, and as an economy, because we invest in them and they invest back in us. Sheryl Sandberg country children thinking Our aspirations are really for women to be in half the leadership roles and men to be doing half the work of parenting. Sheryl Sandberg aspiration men When things are hate or things are violence, we take them down. But when things are false, we dramatically decrease it and we show the other side of the story, and that's because the debate has to happen, the way you can say something is false is you have to be able to say,' Here's the true side of the story,' and we want that debate to happen -- so that people do get educated and understand that the science is settled. Sheryl Sandberg health-news We hope Facebook remains a place where the memory and spirit of our loved ones can be celebrated and live on. Sheryl Sandberg tech Mark Zuckerberg've realized Mark Zuckerberg missed stuff. And Mark Zuckerberg don't want to make that mistake again. Sheryl Sandberg top-news Facebook has had a hard time these last few years, and that is because we need to do a better job keeping people safe on our platform, we're not the same company we were, even a few years ago, and that is something we have to prove. We have massively ramped up investment in safety and security. This means jobs. We do a lot of that in Ireland and today we're going to be hiring an additional 1,000 people in Ireland in the next year alone. Sheryl Sandberg technology It really depends what it is. If it was in something that wasn't core to what we were doing and a new area, like Oculus was, I think it would probably be allowed. Sheryl Sandberg top-news If you are doing child-exploitative content, WhatsApp's encrypted, but we know who you are from Facebook. We can take your account down on WhatsApp, too. Sheryl Sandberg top-news We certainly thought about lots of other forms of monetization including subscriptions, and we ’ll always continue to consider everything. Sheryl Sandberg tech Our apps have long been focused on giving people transparency and control and this gives us a very good foundation to meet all the requirements of the GDPR and to spur us on to continue investing in products and in educational tools to protect privacy. Sheryl Sandberg tech If we can prevent people from being part of our ad networks, prevent people from advertising and take away the financial incentive, that is one of the strongest things we can do against false news, and we are very focused on this. Sheryl Sandberg tech The numbers have not moved since 2002and are going in the wrong direction. Sheryl Sandberg opinion
