A lot of women aspire to succeed in business, or any other area, not because they want to replace a desire for a rich mate but because they find it a challenge to do so and succeeding at something that is challenging provides personal fulfillment. Do you propose that you are aware of what successful women want since you stated that they "lie to themselves about what they truly want?". Since you are stipulating that successful women lie to themselves, what is it that they lie about?
In regards to "women who are not that good looking will strive to achieve in the business world", I hope you did not include me in this set. My photo is on the profile.
Let me answer that:
Generally speaking of course, women "lie" about the definition of "success," or perhaps the perception of "success."
And is the bottomline equally measured in emotional fullfillment, intellectual fullfillment, and physically fullfillment?
I notice you didn't answer my earlier question wherein I also stated that you are COLD. You can be as gorgeous as all getout, njwoman, as well as successful and brilliant, and I still don't get the feeling of envy that you seem to want to incite.
I'm not a 'hot babe' like you, but I'm confident of my appearance and my accomplishments in the 'business world'. I'm secure in 'who I am' even though I know I need to work on some emotional issues. I'll take a warm flesh-and-blood man next to me over material and societal success any day. No wimpy 'nice guys' need 'apply', however.
Whoa! Easy on the ego, sistah. ;^)