Business Quote by Ellen Key

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

— Hedy Lamarr

“Women are often convinced by many different social norms, expectations, and incentives to live within constraints that similarly placed (in terms of race, class,…

— Cudd/Holmstrom

Courage allows the successful woman to fail- and learn powerful lessons- from the failure- so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

— Maya Angelou

Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that…

— Isabel Allende

The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.

— Charlotte Bunch

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress,…

— Camille Paglia

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

When women are starting out in their careers, they tend to be confident and look to aspire to leadership role and really want those…

— Lynne Doughtie

“In the twentieth century the women who wanted to be on their own were some of the best, the honest ones, those who instinctively…

— Richard Aldington

Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The ability to secure an independent livelihood and honorable employ suited to her education and capacities is the only true foundation of the social…

— Catharine Beecher

“There is, in fact, a primary driving force behind women's reluctance to see their ambition as a virtue.”

— Debra Condren