Power Quotes

Who has it, who wants it, and what happens when it's wielded wisely or poorly.

25234 quotes

B
"Power without responsibility is tyranny."
Barbara Smith
B
"Power is the ability to make a difference."
Barbara Smith
G
"Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness."
Gloria Steinem
b
"Mindfulness is revolutionary because it returns power to the individual"
bell hooks
B
"Women who try to be equal to men lack ambition."
Betty Friedan
B
"Economic independence is the foundation of personal autonomy."
Betty Friedan
B
"Independence is not selfish; it is essential to human dignity."
Betty Friedan
B
"The ability to earn one's own money is transformative freedom."
Betty Friedan
B
"The intellectual development of women has always threatened power structures."
Betty Friedan
A
"The most important thing is that we organize ourselves and hold each other accountable."
Angela Davis
A
"One of the most powerful political tools available to oppressed people is the power to reject and resist definitions imposed upon them."
Angela Davis
A
"The most powerful force available to humanity is the force of collective consciousness."
Angela Davis
W
"Our seeds, our stories, our strength belong to us."
Winona LaDuke
W
"The power of indigenous peoples is the power to save the world."
Winona LaDuke
G
"The most powerful of all words is no, because it stops the conversation."
Germaine Greer
G
"The secret to a woman's power is her own awareness of it."
Germaine Greer
b
"Our greatest power lies in our ability to feel deeply and act justly."
bell hooks
b
"We create the world through the choices we make each day."
bell hooks
B
"The intersections of our identities are where our greatest power lies."
Barbara Smith
B
"The power to name is the power to change."
Barbara Smith
B
"Our survival is our resistance; our joy is our power."
Barbara Smith
B
"Our collective power is infinite when we move together."
Barbara Smith
A
"Organized people are infinitely more powerful than organized money."
Angela Davis
G
"A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture, transform, and heal."
Gloria Steinem
G
"Whoever controls the media controls the mind."
Gloria Steinem
G
"The future is literally in our hands, in the form of the choices we make every day."
Gloria Steinem
G
"The greatest act of revolution is self-love and self-care."
Gloria Steinem
"The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling."
Audre Lorde
"The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation and that always carries a fearful charge."
Audre Lorde
"The locus of change is always within the sphere of the powerless."
Audre Lorde