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Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.


Katharine Graham

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KATHARINE GRAHAM As I see it, my focus has never been on masculine power rampant and triumphant but rather on the ant...
PHILIP ROTH As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the ma...
THOMAS AQUINAS As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the ma...
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS Power as an experience is as intense as sex. Power is more pervasive and unremitting. Sex has period...
JOHN MCLAUGHLIN Why do some people think that guys wearing pink are sissies? Don't they know that pink was once cons...
MJ CHRISTINE Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
OSCAR WILDE But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, an...
ALAN PATON If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
WILLIAM HAZLITT My name is Jasmine Lewis, and this is my story. It’s a cautionary tale about money, sex, and power...
TERESA LO Power has no limits.
TIBERIUS CAESAR Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
OPRAH WINFREY All the power is with the sex that wears the beard
MOLIERE But there is only one thing that has power completely, and this is love. Because when a man loves, h...
ALAN PATON You will see that one side has all of the power. The other side has no power.
LIZ VIERING For you see Miss Lucy Graham was blessed with that magic power of fascination by which a woman can c...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON It is a tragedy indeed that new generations, taking office, attribute failures in governance to insu...
MIKE PENCE When the powerful uses the power, he becomes powerless.
QAMAR KHAN QURESHI Forgiveness has healing power, vengeance has destructive power, hate has limited power, but love has...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO We didn't need sex. We had Tyrone Power.
BARBARA CARTLAND Sex may be an expression of love. However, where sex exists, love may not always find a place. Sex m...
RAYKA KUMRU No reality has the power to dispel a dream.
LEMONY SNICKET The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath i...
EDMUND WHITE The law has no power over heroes
CHARLOTTE LENNOX The law has no power over heroes.
CHARLOTTE LENNOX Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of nat...
JON MEACHAM There was no power, no range whatsoever,
ROD STEWART Whether one has a favorable or unfavorable opinion of unions, their demise is also the demise of cou...
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
HONORE DE BALZAC You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and...
BEATRICE WOOD Life's irony;Deadly death has the power to terminate life's contract,but lively life has no power to...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It has no other intention except to keep this government in power.
LOVEMORE MADHUKU In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet....
CAMILLE PAGLIA Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.
DAN MILLMAN Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes
DAN MILLMAN The power to defeat sexual temptations in life is by learning to transmute your sexual urges into ot...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to know whether your spouse is enjoying sex with you or not is by learning to discern the ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to activate your inactive sex life is by learning to use the magical tool called pornograp...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to never get bored of sex is by learning to become adventurous in the art.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to defeat sexual temptation in life is by learning to distance yourself from the seducer.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to become good in bed is by learning to defeat your sexual instinct.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet....
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA I don't know about "any" publisher. But Katharine Graham and I had been working together for almost ...
BEN BRADLEE What Sex and the City did for sex and relationships, Lipstick Jungle does for success and power,
CANDACE BUSHNELL Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the ...
AYN RAND One of our competitors has created this myth that DC power is more efficient. In fact, the opposite ...
ANDY BECHTOLSHEIM The past has no power over the present moment.
ECKHART TOLLE Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.
ANN AGUIRRE Unlike the Vietnam boat people or Cuban refugees after Castro came to power, the U.S. has no moral r...
TOM TANCREDO Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
PAUL HARRIS By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedo...
ERIC HOFFER I'm convinced it was a miracle, in every sense of the word. We attribute all of this to the power of...
CHARLIE LYNCH The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.
FANNY KEMBLE No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really...
OPRAH WINFREY I do believe in the power of freedom. The power of freedom is the mightiest force of history. Once t...
TSAKHIAGIIN ELBEGDORJ When these so called 'morning-after' clinics were first founded, many worried that they would be con...
JAMES KAHN The Didots created happiness and power, or in this case, pain and sadness...but only within its subj...
EMBEE Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex
MARLO THOMAS No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.
WENDY MCELROY Finding this, she was much perplexed as to Henchard's motives in opening the matter at all; for in s...
THOMAS HARDY A poor, who hates power, once become powerful, hates poor.
AMIT KALANTRI This has long ceased to be just a scandal about sex abuse. It's a scandal about abuse of power and t...
TOM ROBERTS He who has power over himself has power over his greatest enemy.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO My feeling on the subject of sex with a man is - don't give it up unless you're willing to give him ...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that ...
GWEN STEFANI Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now...
OPRAH WINFREY DeLay has a lot of power, ... I always believe power should be diffused.
CLIFF STEARNS A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass...
HESTER I THRALE The drive for power is even less logical than the sex urge . . . and stronger.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Those who want to power know no mercy.
SIR KRISTIAN GOLDMUND AUMANN But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without mo...
JAMES BALDWIN But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without mo...
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN The only power an actor has is the ability to say: 'No
LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power.
JIM MORRISON There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans fac...
JAMES BOVARD Precedents once established are so much positive power
JAMES MADISON Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its...
PAMELA MEYER Philosophy was once considered science.
P. J. O'ROURKE The telephone was not his favorite object, and more than once he had considered getting rid of his. ...
PAUL AUSTER He hath no power that hath not power to use.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Living in peace has transformative power!
GERMANY KENT You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in f...
HARRY BROWNE Storytelling has a narcotic power.
ROBERT HARRIS Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.
AHMED BEN BELLA Through our intentions, a place no power can influence, we have the power to oppose.
BRYANT MCGILL Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it tog...
SHANE CLAIBORNE The people with ideas have no power and the people with power have no ideas.
HARMON OKINYO The Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their god...
DAN BROWN But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.
ALLEN KLEIN Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.
MICHAEL FRANTI No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, pow...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING The U.S. has a great power to protect our people. Only you have the power.
AHMED MANSOUR The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact t...
MAY SARTON We lost everything at once . . . communications, power grid, infrastructure.
DICK CHENEY We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
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KATHARINE HEPBURN What in the world would we do without our libraries?
KATHARINE HEPBURN Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the gi...
KATHARINE WEBER Going through puberty as a young girl is so confusing. This monster invades your body, changes thing...
KATHARINE ISABELLE Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don'...
KATHARINE HEPBURN Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about...
KATHARINE HEPBURN To be loved is very demoralizing
KATHARINE HEPBURN Tea at Five
KATHARINE HEPBURN Someone asked someone who was about my age: "How are you?" The answer was, "Fine. If you don't ask f...
KATHARINE HEPBURN It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what is between her ears instead of her legs.
KATHARINE HEPBURN It's life, isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then som...
KATHARINE HEPBURN I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical to love, honor, and obey.
KATHARINE HEPBURN Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to ...
KATHARINE HEPBURN I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind t...
KATHARINE HEPBURN If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun
KATHARINE HEPBURN Drive on. We'll sweep up the blood later!
KATHARINE HEPBURN There is no evidence of a conspiracy ... the state failed because there is no conspiracy.
KATHARINE LIELL We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - yo...
KATHARINE HEPBURN Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling...
KATHARINE HEPBURN Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
KATHARINE HEPBURN I personally am a 'discovery writer,' as we're termed, someone who plans the book by wri...
KATHARINE KERR