Quotes About Power

These impossible women! How they do get around us!

Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.

Men feared witches and burned women.

I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.

I feel that women 'and men,' but I mean the 'individual,' can be totally feminine and still be totally powerful.

Sometimes women are so great and powerful, but then they surrender to these vain things. They kind of fall for it.

The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.

Powerful women are a threat in any society which is why I am such a target.

Men use women sexually. They use them, mistreat them, even from the point of view of vocabulary, the use of words. It baffles me.

The stronger women get, the more men love football.

If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table.

It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.

If women envy men, we can now see that it's because of the privileges their anatomy confers and not the anatomy itself.

In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal.

A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.

The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.

What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.

I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.

Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.

Negotiations are about controlling things, about being in the driver's seat and make one tiny mistake; you're dead. I made one tiny mistake, I wore women's clothes

Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?

Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.

When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

When women breached the power structure in the 1980s?two economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency: it literally became money.