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Quotes About Power

Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
~ Hedy Lamarr
War is not women's history.
~ Virginia Woolf
Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.
~ Laura Schlessinger
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
~ Mae West
Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.
~ Jon Bon Jovi
I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for bodybuilding, but it's very exhausting.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
~ Sophocles
Why would we go to war on women? They don't have any oil.
~ Stephen Colbert
It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
~ Hermione Gingold
Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.
~ Aeschylus
One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
~ Tammy Bruce
It's better not to argue with women... When people push boundaries too far, it's not because they are strong but because they are weak. But maybe weakness is not the worst quality for a woman.
~ Vladimir Putin
Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.
~ Warren Farrell
The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.
~ Helen Rowland
Women do most delight in revenge.
~ Thomas Browne
I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
~ Sally Quinn
I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.
~ Alice Munro
For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.
~ Rachel Carson
Women's weapon, water-drops.
~ O. Henry
Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.
~ Ian Fleming
Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.
~ Margaret Mead
I don't like it when I outweigh my men.
~ Patricia Briggs, Moon Called