Aspiration Quote by Sheryl Sandberg

“There are several explanations offered as to why women have lower aspirations than men, including that women feel there is a lack of fit…

— Sheryl Sandberg

We have women entering lower-paying career fields. Women are still, culturally, the primary caregivers for children, even though we would love to have fathers…

— Martha McSally

This tension between ambition and parenthood, that's not a reckoning that many men face. There are plenty of men who say, 'Oh, I need…

— Rumaan Alam

For women, no matter what career, what path you choose, it's still an uphill battle to work your way up to these top leadership…

— Anna Gunn

Women especially are often asked to choose between being a mother and being a leader. Without adequate policy support, too many women face not…

— Michelle Wu

When we frame women's choices in terms of extreme work or extreme mothering, women think they have to define themselves in terms of a…

— Rachel Simmons

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

— Lawrence Welk

Women are only half responsible for children. Men raise children as much as women do. Until men are as nurturing as women are, and…

— Gloria Steinem

How deep is our desire to do better than our mothers--to bring daughters into adulthood strong and fierce yet loving and gentle, adventurous and…

— Anne Roiphe

Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children.…

— Ban Ki-moon

I think obviously we need to work harder at extending the women's movement. How do women who have prepared for careers and have a…

— Tom Brokaw

We have to ask ourselves if we have become so focused on supporting personal choices that we're failing to encourage women to aspire to…

— Sheryl Sandberg