“I was the only “girl writer,” probably because the power to make people laugh is also a power, so women have been kept out of comedy. Polls show that what women fear most from men is violence, and what men fear most from women is ridicule. Later, when Tina Fey was head writer and star of Saturday Night Live, she could still say, “Only in comedy does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.” 

“The worship of power is an old religion.”

“We must not only vote but fight to vote. The voting booth really is the one place on earth where the least powerful equal the powerful. p176” 

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

“Power is being redefined. Women often explain with care that we mean power to control our lives, but not to dominate others.” 

“Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.”

“Secrets have power only as long as they are secret.” 

“There is power in proximity. Get close to the problem you feel drawn to. Change the narrative. Stay hopeful. Be willing to do uncomfortable things.” 

“We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.” 

“Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.” 

I am going to get rid of these elements one by one until the last person, apart from the decision from the Almighty Allah, no human soul, animal, fish or insect, black or white, can remove me from power.

“We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.” 

“None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.” 

“Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.” 

“Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.”

“The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.” 

“If you knew what I know about the power of giving you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.”

If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.

“Character is power.” 

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. 

Travel brings power and love back into your life. 

Anything which is more than our necessity is poison. It may be power, wealth, hunger, ego, greed, laziness, love, ambition, hate or anything.

 I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose… one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites – polar opposites – so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love.