Corresponding Quote by Julia Ward Howe

Sometimes women are so great and powerful, but then they surrender to these vain things. They kind of fall for it.

— Lykke Li

“Women are these wonderful mysteries and they excite me on all kinds of levels. Their power over us is, I think, often a moral…

— Clive Barker

“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

And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present century are…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Individually and collectively, we are shifting from a position of fear into surrender and trust of the intuitive. The power of the feminine energy…

— Shakti Gawain

As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always…

— Hanna Rosin

“The idealized woman becomes property, symbol, and ornament; she is stripped of her essential human qualities. The devalued woman becomes a different kind of…

— bell hooks

The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be…

— Joseph Addison

It is of very doubtful value to enlist the gifts of a woman into fields that have been defined as male; it frightens the…

— Margaret Mead

I try to make women feel more powerful without losing their femininity,

— Miuccia Prada

“I suggest that the representation of women deserves a much higher consideration in our religious discourse. When words are presented as if they come…

— Carol Lynn Pearson