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I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.

— Rita Mae Brown

There are people who don't like women holding power.

— Bill O'Reilly

Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Women are often forced to maintain good relations with men who abuse them precisely because those men have power.

— Kirsten Powers

Too many women have given up the power over the years because men have created the terms.

— Steve Harvey

Studies show that women seeking power tend to be punished for doing so, because it goes against cultural bias. Women are expected to be…

— Catherine Mayer

I have always felt that perhaps women have sometimes almost embraced the same values as men, and the same character as men, because they…

— Wangari Maathai

The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power, ... We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power.…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Men have reacted very negatively to the power that is inherent in women.

— Frederick Lenz

If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than…

— Mary Beard

The world needs women to redefine what it means to be a person of power

— Elizabeth Lesser

“Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women...”

— Carolyn G. Heilbrun