Ambitious women Quote by Cordelia Fine

Gender perception can be a pernicious thing: Where a lack of warmth passes in a male, in a woman, it's deadly.

— Maria Konnikova

Women are penalized both for deviating from the masculine norm and for appearing to be masculine. When women try to establish their competence, they…

— Kathleen Hall Jamieson

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

— Anonymous

For woman's chief want is to feel that she is wanted. Therefore it is that with women, cruelty is more easily borne than coldness.…

— Arnold Haultain

“. . . women internalize the feminine wound or feminine inferiority so deeply, there's little or no female authority and esteem to fall back…

— Sue Monk Kidd

To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct;…

— Jane Harrison

“I was dismayed to discover that even today, speaking while female remains notoriously difficult. Across cultures, there’s a rich body of evidence showing that…

— Adam M. Grant

The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men, so women…

— Sheryl Sandberg

The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency…

— Karen Horney

Whatever littleness and vanity is to be observed in the minds of women, it is, like the cruelty of butchers, a temper that is…

— William Law

I guess people have this image of women being more compassionate, being the mother, being caring, but I don't know if that's true. I…

— Caroline Dhavernas