Ambition Quote by Vonda N. McIntyre

Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for…

— Virginia Woolf

“Things were not so simple after all. She could not understand even her own feelings. She saw the most cherished of her convictions put…

— Virginia Woolf

“what she did during her lifetime but in the meaning of her life, the inspiration she gave to others, particularly women, to search for…

— Andrew Morton

“She had always given too much of her life over to relationships, and they’d never quite worked out. Now she was simplifying her life…

— Jack Ketchum

She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do. A life…

— Bernhard Schlink

More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears, return to…

— Sandra Worth

“She had to make her own marvelous mistakes.”

— Paul Scott

...it occurred to her how some people continued through no design of one's own to be in one's life while others might initially enter…

— Susan Minot

In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she's now much…

— Gillian Anderson

She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite,…

— Isabel Allende

She wanted to be irresponsible, she wanted to be looked after, to be told that she didn't have to worry about a thing and…

— Cecelia Ahern

“She became, and her process of becoming was like most of ours: she developed a hatred for things that mystified or obstructed her; acquired…

— Toni Morrison