Ambition Quote by Hope Barrett
““THE EMPRESS LO was not beautiful but she was ambitious and, sometimes, ambition can take you further than beauty. The women of the court never wondered how she got this far because as all women know, the rise to power is relatively simple ~ especially if it is a man who has control. ~ from the Three Lives of Empress Lo. Forthcoming.””
![“I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a human being, regardless of the distinction of sex [...]” quote by Mary Wollstonecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/445/mary-wollstonecraft-1568_beauty_i-wish-to-show-that-elegance-is-inferior_130145.jpg)
![“She [Queen Isabella] will look at you as women look at men. She will judge you as women judge men. Not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness, or their prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character; the intesity of their passion, their strength of soul…” quote by Orson Scott Card](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b06/orson-scott-card-134_war_she-queen-isabella-will-look-at-you-as-w_1804480.jpg)
