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Be ambitious, be wildly ambitious, because if you constantly run up against people who are telling you ‘no,’ ambition is the only thing that motors you through.

— Alicia Menendez

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I know the enormous joy of feeling that your life has been dedicated to helping others, and also the enormous frustration of public life.

But the truth is that without my gringa mother, I might not be as proud to be Latina as I am today.

You can’t have a private life as an elected official. It’s not a family-friendly institution.

I think what makes that extra complicated is that we're living in a moment where we're told that great leaders are authentic leaders.

Women and girls across cultures are socialized to care what other people think about them.

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

Étienne de La Boétie Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (1548)

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.

Jean de La Bruyère Les Caractères (1688)

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