#powerless

If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#i #myself #powerless #probably #queen

Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity. ↗

— Michael Jeffery

#atrocity #collectively #evening #evening news #feeling

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#economically #feel #female #force #had

Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well. ↗

— Lydia Lunch

#anything #change #just #just one #miserable

I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#decided #feel #get #i #i feel

I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly passion eddy continually. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#exhaustion #power #powerlessness #tried #life

For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#powerlessness #marriage

I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#fundamentally #grew #i #powerless #up

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#believing #convenient #fundamentally #gradually #grew

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#combine #dictionary #evil #good #good and evil