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On 20 March 2017, President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump, who owns a branded retail chain, tweeted an image of a quote attributed to novelist Ayn Rand: Trump is not the first one to attribute the quote to Rand. In 2013, the young women's clothing line Forever 21 put the quote on a tank top (the company no longer sells the shirt). The quote is often attributed to Rand, an influential writer and philosopher with a cult following best known for the 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged. She never said or wrote exactly those words — but there is a similar passage in her 1943 book The Fountainhead, said Onkar Ghate, chief content officer and senior fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute. In an e-mail, Ghate told us the passage is part of dialogue between the protagonist, Howard Roark, and another character: Rand founded a school of philosophical thought called Objectivism, which champions individuality and self-reliance. Objectivism has played an influential role in American Libertarian and conservative politics. She is also seen as an intriguing anomaly as a female writer and thinker who become prominent in an era when the field was heavily dominated by men.
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