#power

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#hood #making #men #only #path

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#act #caring #desire #fear #love

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

#each #her #other #own #underestimates

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#experience #explain #getting #i #i do

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#capable #counted #create #crisis #days

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#checked #misery #population #power #producing

The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#ages #idea #interesting #interesting thing #makes

Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#career #discrimination #empowerment #equality #jobs

My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them. ↗

— George Soros

#care #country #doing #empower #foundations