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Quotes About Power

There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.
~ Mario Lopez
When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.
~ Madame de Stael
Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.
~ Baltasar Gracian
She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.
~ J. Courtney Sullivan
For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.
~ Aeschylus
Do not doubt a woman's power to aid; no toil Can daunt a pure affection.
~ Silius Italicus
Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.
~ Judy Davis
A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power.
~ Vladimir Voinovich
Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.
~ Janet Fitch
I grew up with Thundercats and She-Ra: Princess Of Power. That was sort of my take on fantasy: the women after-school cartoon world.
~ Milla Jovovich
Women are powerful and dangerous.
~ Audre Lorde
The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
~ Oscar Wilde
The first thing the male establishment wants to control is uterus and birth. You might call it womb envy. But even worse is the fact we are still using the male model of sexual response for women.
~ Betty Dodson
When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.
~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
I'm not writing about things other women do. I'm writing for other women to have more self-confidence because I need it myself! And if more women were in power, I would feel more comfortable.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.
~ Billie Jean King
...gender relationships, which are tough for people to deal with, are key to whether a society orients to domination or partnership in all its relations.
~ Riane Eisler
Anyhow they're always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
A woman always has her revenge ready.
~ Moliere
I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.
~ Katherine Heigl
If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
To the men and women who own men and women those of us meant to be lovers we will not pardon you for wasting our bodies and time
~ Leonard Cohen
Women. You tell me they're not all witches, and I'll tell you you haven't been paying attention.
~ Charlie Huston