In the 2017 anthology Double Bind: Women on Ambition, playwright Sarah Ruhl has an essay, “Letter to My Mother and Daughters on Ambition.” In it, she writes to her mother: “I want, before you die, for you to feel at rest, to feel you’ve accomplished enough. To look around at this earth and say: It was good. And I wonder if that counts as mission or ambition.… Or does ambition only count as checking things off your own list and moving ever forward?”
