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“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
― Robert Ingersoll

“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ”
― Roseanne Barr

“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."

(Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)”
― Madeleine Albright

“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
― Plato