"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."
2
"Women have had the power of naming stolen from us."
1
"I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself."
2
"We can't afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need."
2
"There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed."
2
"Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."
1
"I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers."
4
"This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation."
1
"When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful."
1
"I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous."
0
"I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves."
0
"You must make women count as much as men you must have an equal standard of morals and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way."
1
"I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time."
1
"Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it."
1
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
2
"Lipstick is the most valuable weapon in a woman's make-up kit. It has the power to transform the appearance and mood of the person wearing it, and, at the same time, arouses the admiration of everybody else."
0
"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
2
"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."
1
"Whence, then, did the cathedral derive its power? Clearly here: It took back the family into the confidences of religion. It taught man and woman how the human and the divine love could go hand in hand."
0
"In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism."
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