Quotes About Power

I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.

Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

I think women like Ferraris. A Ferrari is everybody's car.

Historically men have suppressed women quite effectively. They have suppressed women since the beginning of our history.

Women have been systematically pushed out of spirituality by men.

Why do men feel threatened by women?

There's this absurd innate need in most men to feel that they're more powerful than women are, which is ridiculous.

Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness.

A lot of men hate women subconsciously or just are very confused about them or are afraid of them or are afraid of their power, or want to suppress them.

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

Men have reacted very negatively to the power that is inherent in women.

They have rejected that power and sought to convince women of the exact opposite, that they are powerless.

When you wish to subjugate a people, you have to convince them of their own inherent weakness.

Yes, life is a woman!

Women have been sexual slaves for most of recorded history.

The average woman today is almost completely out of touch with her own power.

What women have done is developed a survival mechanism, and it's a fascinating one and it's been effective and justified, in my opinion. That is the ability to manipulate men sexually.

What they have done over the centuries is evolve the fine use of sexual power.

No religion can be built on force.

The sexual energies returned, when they're not evolved, are still linked with violence and the fear of power - the fear of women.

Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.

Overturning patriarchy does not mean replacing men's dominance with women's dominance. That would merely maintain the patriarchal pattern of dominance. We need to transform the pattern itself.

I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve in the army.