Destroying Quote by Anonymous

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

— Elizabeth Lesser

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

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

— Mary Wollstonecraft

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

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

men never would share power with women willingly. If we wanted it, we would have to take it.

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

“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

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

— Steve Harvey

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

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

— Bella Abzug

The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power…

— Katharine Graham

Being a woman is power. Just because we live in a male-dominated world doesn't mean that you're incapable or less than a man.

— Mya