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Quotes About Power

There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.
~ Gloria Steinem
The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace.
~ George W. Bush
Female sexuality is presented in our culture as a male fantasy, which doesn't include the reality of the abuse, the pleasure, the pain, the power, the complexity of women's sexuality.
~ Deborah Kampmeier
I'm automatically attracted to beautiful women - I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.
~ Donald Trump
I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
I give it up to women who have the power to keep their spirit alive under very difficult circumstances.
~ Emily Saliers
... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong overcome the superstitions that still engulf women.
~ Emma Goldman
I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
~ Erica Jong
I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know
~ Esther Williams
The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.
~ Eve Ensler
I think what all of us have in common is that we've been taught and trained and programmed to focus on fixing and mutilating ourselves. That's a core reason why women do not have power in the world.
~ Eve Ensler
My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they are behind a wheel that they most fear the control of women and children.
~ Fay Weldon
Politics ain't beanbag: 'tis a man's game, and women, children 'n' pro-hy-bitionists had best stay out of it.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.
~ Frank Moore Colby
Are you sick and tired of men sniveling and whining about how we women want to smother them? If you can still hear them whining you aren't holding the pillow down hard enough.
~ Fred Green
The women that I met were exceptional, extraordinary - tremendous purity, tremendous gentleness, self-giving and power.
~ Frederick Lenz
For some reason, the women in my life have always been extremely powerful. I've learned a great deal from that. I've learned that we're all women when we're complete and we're all men.
~ Frederick Lenz
When women come into their full power, a balance will occur which has not been seen for so long that no one remembers it.
~ Frederick Lenz
Through the proper application of kundalini, a woman can quickly become aware of the tremendous power that resides inside herself and reach enlightenment.
~ Frederick Lenz
Today for the first time, at least in this country, you don't have to use those powers to survive. Our societal structure now provides the possibility to survive without using sexual manipulation.
~ Frederick Lenz
The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
You're going to women? Don't forget your whip!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche