Ambition Quote by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of males. We teach…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Owing to cultural beliefs, girls have been taught to be small, disappear and not take our full place in society. But that is not…

— Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

Whenever women have made any social gains, whether it's being accepted as athletes or moving into the professions, it's going to be contradicted with…

— Kim Chernin

“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In the older times it was seldom said to little girls, as it always has been said to boys, that they ought to have…

— Lucy Larcom

We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls: 'You can have ambition, but not too much. You should…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“How can God give girls so much power ? How can they turn productive,busy and ambitious men into a wilting mass of uselessness. Page 204”

— Chetan Bhagat

We're told that to be successful girls, we have to be small and quiet. Yet to be successful humans, we have to become big…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

I want to motivate and inspire young girls to pursue their dreams, no matter how big they are, and encourage them to never set…

— Eva Marie

When my girls do something very small, it means something big to me. Just watching them accomplish things from the time they're infants in…

— Alan Jackson

I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. But I want them to know that it's okay to be ambitious.

— Ronda Rousey

Sometimes, for girls, it's about building confidence and giving them a can-do attitude. It's seeing role models, people like yourselves, doing those jobs and…

— Esther McVey