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Quotes About Power

Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.
~ Honore de Balzac
Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?
~ Honore de Balzac
Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.
~ Honore de Balzac
The Oracle rose. As one, the three witches bowed. "See?" Bran jerked his thumb at the three women. "That's how a woman should treat a man. Next time you see me, I want you to do just like them.
~ Ilona Andrews
I've always liked fast cars and slow women.
~ Jack LaLanne
You take advantage of your position as a famous actor to meet women.
~ James Franco
The number of women in power positions is a fraction of the number of men in such positions.
~ James Franco
Men in your position have women offering themselves in the hopes that they will get somewhere professionally, or socially.
~ James Franco
So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.
~ Jane Swisshelm
In human history who hold the reigns of political power, and there are some women who were very much a team player during their husband's oppressive regime.
~ Jay Nordlinger
Romantic love was invented to manipulate women
~ Jenny Holzer
The reason men rule is because women let them.
~ Jessica Zafra
The white woman has never had the co-equal status that the African woman has had.
~ John Henrik Clarke
Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.
~ John Lyly
It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.
~ John Updike
It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?
~ Joss Whedon
Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.
~ Jules Renard
Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.
~ Julianna Baggott
Many entire nations are marginalised by the more powerful nations. That is causing imbalance, violence and terror. Women must do their best to introduce another perspective.
~ Karen Armstrong
The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful.
~ Kathleen Turner
Donald Trump has always had women around him in powerful positions. That's true in his corporation, in his campaign, and now his cabinet.
~ Kellyanne Conway
If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.
~ Ken Livingstone
Nothing is irresistible. There is no feeling that is irresistible.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful.
~ Les Dawson