Samuel Barnett Quotes

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

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Most women experience issues of power and sexuality, but very few women talk about it. There's the threat of the loss of approval.

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.

The veil is the mask of Egyptian women in a power struggle against the dictatorship of men…. The veil gives women more power in a man’s world.

There’s no more despised figure on earth than a woman who seeks power.

If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.

We don't think only men can be powerful and strong. Behind the heads of the Mafia, the leaders of culture, there are always very strong women. European culture is a matriarchy, especially in the south. The women have a lot of power.

'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.

The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.

Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.