Tory Burch Quotes

I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving.

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

One of the things I noticed is that if you look up the word ambition you will see that when it's applied to women, it's almost always negative. If a woman is ambitious she's cutthroat, she's seen as more unpleasant. Whereas when its attached to a man it's far less negative.

There always will be stereotypes that women can't drive. When I hear the comments, it just makes me more determined to prove them wrong.

There’s always a stigma attached to the word ‘ambition’ and women. I’ve embraced it. Ambition is NOT a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.

And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know her story, because she will confound you over and over again. She may be an engineer or a diplomat or a doctor. Or she may be an unbelievable babe with bleached hair down to her waist.

I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.

Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

If you're a man and you are confident and you are ambitious and strong, then you are a statesman and a leader. If you are a woman and you have those qualities, well, they have a not-so-flattering term for that.

Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

There’s no more despised figure on earth than a woman who seeks power.

As a young girl, I'm always going to have to work a bit harder to prove myself; that's just reality. But having to work harder makes me feel like girls are stronger, too.

They won't take you seriously because you are a girl. These guys had to understand that you are just as tough as them, and you have to take them on.

Women like me aren't supposed to run for office.

Women don't necessarily understand that it is possible to have the same level of ambition as men - they allow themselves to be held back by the obstacles rather than empowered by the possibilities.

There's nothing wrong with women saying that we can be ambitious and that we can want the same things that men have traditionally wanted.

Don't try to squeeze into a glass slipper. Instead, shatter the glass ceiling.

Especially in our society, for a woman to be ambitious and controlling, that's a negative. Whereas me as a person, I don't think that's negative. If I wasn't ambitious and controlling to a certain extent, I wouldn't be where I am today.

When women apply for a job, we ask ourselves, 'Am I qualified? Do I have the experience? Do I have the education? Do I have the abilities?' When a man looks at that job, he thinks, 'How much does it pay?' We need to stop second-guessing our abilities. We need to stand up and make ourselves heard.

Let's just start with the word 'diva.' It is obviously a sexist slight - a term that is only applied to women, almost always in a derogatory way. It's usually applied to women who are viewed as overly ambitious. It is applied to demanding women, to women who follow their own path.

I feel it's so rare that young females are portrayed as being anything more than a stereotype.

Women get labeled 'bossy' when it's like, 'Maybe I'm a leader. Maybe I just know what I want.'

You're going to women? Don't forget your whip!