Power is the ability not to have to please

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

Power is the ability not to have to please.

If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - then I am nothing. Let me feel guilty ... don't try to educate me ... don't protect me.

If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.

The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.

Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.

It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice.

There is an ability to move and transform things. I think each human being has that power, and it's often one that we are willing to relinquish to others.

America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive.

I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve.

A good conspiracy is unprovable. I mean, if you can prove it, it means they screwed up somewhere along the line.

I deeply regret the damage my original case caused women. I want the Supreme Court to examine the evidence and have a spirit of justice for women and children.

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside.

If you're not happy about how you look, you have to question how much self-love you have.