I am Quote by Kim Hawthorne

One of the things I noticed is that if you look up the word ambition you will see that when it's applied to women,…

— Susie Dent

I'm always surprised at the negative response to the women in my books who are openly ambitious or experience aggression.

— Megan Abbott

You're not taught to be ambitious as a woman. And so when you are, sometimes you shy away from it or you're scared of…

— Zozibini Tunzi

As a woman, you feel that you shouldn't want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasn't it?

— Rosamund Pike

I think as a woman it's in our nature to nurture someone else. Sometimes at the expense of ourselves.

— Emilia Clarke

As a woman, you feel that you shouldnt want to better yourself against others. Ambition has become such an ugly word, hasnt it?

— Rosamund Pike

“Professional ambition is expected of men but is optional—or worse, sometimes even a negative—for women. “She is very ambitious” is not a compliment in…

— Sheryl Sandberg

There's a negative connotation to ambitious women, and I think that we should be able to be proud of being ambitious and not shy…

— Tory Burch

I think that the word 'ambitious' is still used in a derogatory way when it comes to women, in a way that it's not…

— Victoria Derbyshire

It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.

— Michelle Bachelet

I'm ambitious. I do think you have a tendency to be less happy sometimes when you're a seeker. You can be disenchanted because you're…

— Matt Dillon

Women don't necessarily understand that it is possible to have the same level of ambition as men - they allow themselves to be held…

— Heather Bresch