Failure Quote by Milan Kundera

To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.

— Milan Kundera

“What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure.”

— Milan Kundera

“What we have not chosen we cannot consider our merit or our failure.”

— Milan Kundera

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

— Debra Condren

“Being a woman is a fate Sabina did not choose. What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our…

— Milan Kundera

“I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect. Decedents of the beautiful women that fought so hard for centuries…

— Irena Deneva

“No woman is really humble; she is merely politic. No woman, with a free choice before her, chooses self-immolation; the most she genuinely desires…

— H.L. Mencken

“The moment a woman was born determined so much of who she was allowed to become.”

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“Everyone failed to live up to their own ideals. She wanted to fall short of the best ideals.”

— Cory Doctorow

“A foolish woman believes that loyalty is automatic. A wise woman knows that it is earned.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“The idea that women are “our own worst enemies” forces us to admit that we don’t have the power to be, even if we…

— Gloria Steinem

“What goes unsaid is that women might be more ambitious and focused because we’ve never had a choice. We’ve had to fight to vote,…

— Roxane Gay