Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, 'This is a moment of liberation, a chance to reinvent yourself.' That's kind of what I did.

I have found that I'm just political just by being who I am.

The personal is political for so many.

In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our own lives.

You can reclaim your own narrative.

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

Whether or not cutting my hair was the right decision, it empowered me. But now I have no hair to wash men out of when I go through a breakup, so I'm going to have to get a new tattoo or something when that happens.

[Her message to women and girls of the world] You are more powerful than you can possibly imagine. You are more powerful than you can possibly imagine. And it is incumbent upon you to use that power - not only for yourself, but for everyone else around you.

The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.

The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.

No one is you, and that is your power.

Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beautiful euphemisms for unconscious urges to personal power.

So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

My philosophy has always been to help women and men feel comfortable and confident through the clothes they wear.

I comfortably can say that I am a Republican and I always will be a Republican because the Republican party is a big tent and there was not always things that I agreed with or they didn't agree with me many times. But the fact of the matter is that's the philosophy, and everything that I've heard is exactly the same.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

If you're sexy and you know it put your hands up in the air. Put your hands up in the air, girl, put your hands up.

Freedom comes when you learn to let go, creation comes when you learn to say 'no'

The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.

Believe in the power of your own voice.

To be honest, I felt more myself with that haircut. I felt bold, and it felt empowering because it was my choice. It felt sexy too. Maybe it was the bare neck, but for some reason I felt super-, supersexy.

Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take.

People who wait for a magic wand fail to see that they ARE the magic wand.