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As a woman who has some sort of power, you have to have a man that can take that. It’s hard to find those men.
I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.
The power which establishes a state is violence the power which maintains it is violence the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
I learned about the market’s power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject – whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber – to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn’t have any creative power, nothing. I don’t know that person any more.
We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn’t use irony to reduce their power.
Power doesn’t have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children’s lives.