Quotes About Power

I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.

My ex—may he soon discover tiny worms have invaded his body and are slowly eating him alive—once told me God made men so perfect because He'd wanted to make up for the inadequacies of women.

What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?

In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.

Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

I can assure you the National Federation is an organization of Republican women whose power, prestige, perception, and purpose will never be underestimated by anyone.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says 'What would I do without you?' is already destroyed.

Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

There's no excuse…for women today not to own their own power and lead an unlimited life.

This women's moment to embrace the power-to for good in life and leadership.

This is women's moment to shift the tectonic plates of power on both the personal life and the leadership levels.

It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.

women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.

Unequal access to money and media plus bias, external and internalized, and male-dominant religions and illegality at the polls - all those are reasons for women's wildly unequal political power.

We recognize the universal power of music to touch the hearts of men and women everywhere and in all generations-to inspire and encourage, to sustain and lift, to comfort and bring peace.

In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.

I know the force women can exert in directing the course of events.

Basically, men are afraid of women and can't handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.