Miranda July Quotes

Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

I only want to debate people who are more powerful than I am.

. . . She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It was like a mathematical formula and no more difficult, for mathematics was the one subject that had come easy to Scarlett in her schooldays.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

you can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it just allows you to survive.

All friendships are negotiations of power.

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

If I were straight and I were trying to seduce a woman, I could do it just by standing up at the table when she came back from the bathroom. It works. Every time I do that, all the straight men are sitting at the table and their wives are kicking them. "Look at that!" "You never do that for me!"

Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.

The strong and the weak cannot keep company.

Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over.

The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.

We all know people who are ridiculously famous, and it's a scary thing because all of the sudden people - even the people you are close to - stop being honest with you, stop telling you the truth.

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

To me, the movie is about power.

Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.

Too many women have given up the power over the years because men have created the terms.

Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

Power wears out those who do not have it.

The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go 'round. It's not love, it's that tension, because that tension exists in love affairs. The whole idea of control is at the heart of human relationships. Control and resistance to control.

The less the power, the greater the desire to exercise it.