Ambition Quote by Madame de Stael

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

— Debra Condren

Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects…

— Edward Bernays

Women deluded by these sentiments, sometimes boast of their weakness, cunningly obtaining power by playing on the weakness of men; and they may well…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Women Who Seek Equality With Men Lack Ambition

— Patty Sheehan

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

— Timothy Leary

“The secret of her success was playing the same game men played for centuries—projecting their weakness and inadequacy onto the other gender, trumpeting the…

— Tina Sequeira

Women don't seek power for its own sake, but to make a difference and overcome each challenge

— Kathleen Wynne

“I seldom see women want to change their minds based on this propaganda. Most are resolute – they are committed to their course of…

— Willie Parker

“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if…

— Charlotte Brontë

“They want more, they learn to make claims, the tribute of respect is at last felt to be well-nigh galling; rivalry for rights, indeed…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Women who strive to be equal to men lack ambition.

— Vikas Verma

In the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, as in so many later conflicts, British women seem to have been no more markedly pacifist…

— Linda Colley