“Until we divorce patriarchy from ambition & ambition from patriarchy, we will forever force women and girls to shrink their ambition to fit that asinine phrase “women can do whatever men can”. I don’t want to do anything a man can. I want to be free.”
“Ambition is defiance. It is the middle finger to patriarchy’s insistence that we shrink ourselves. Attention & ambition are cousins. The former defies patriarchy through the brief that ‘I deserve attention’ & the latter by declaring ‘I am more than’.”