Quotes About Power

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'

Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.

I'm not sure a world run by women would be any better. They're human beings!

Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.

... any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those most ready to enact the needful laws themselves.

I can imagine in a century or two that rule by women will be seen as a better bet than rule by men. What's wrong with men is that they tend to look for the violent solution. Women don't.

More women speaking up and seizing the helm of power can create its own momentum. It can change the culture that helps perpetuate those external forces.

There are people who don't like women holding power.

Women now wield considerable power along political lines and I believe each succeeding year for some time to come will find them wielding that power more effectively.

Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am elected.

Woman! woman! What a disturbing element you are in the universe - man's universe!

Sweet is revenge-especially to women.

A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.

Human sacrifice is much in vogue right now. The Republican right thinks that people who get on its nerves, especially women, should be sent to the stake. . .

A lot of women do a lot of harm because they don't control their emotions. But in terms of violence, men seem to have a monopoly

Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

Some women think they need to be overpowering in order to be powerful. This is so far from the truth. What is so great about being a women is how powerful we are quite naturally.

You'd be amazed at how much power women have over men - and the basic control is nagging... Men are very simple creatures, like puppies.

As women go, so goes civilization.

Men want to destroy the women: you've become bigger than me, people love you more, you have a public platform, that's my space you're taking up. I can't just divorce you, I have to destroy you.

Women who have power are always feared.