Quotes About Power

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family and school to be still more undervalued and shunned.

Women are strongest: but above all things Truth beareth away the victory.

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

A woman is like a horse: He who can drive her is her master.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

There is no woman in the world who does not abuse the power she has been able to acquire.

Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

I'm not a woman, I'm a force of nature.

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.

We don't need to go very far in any given day to find a need, hear a request, face an enemy, or encounter a situation that calls for a righteous application of our God-given power as women.

We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.