Henry Charles Carey Quotes

The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question.

You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way.

When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.

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

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.

I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal.

In a modern world where a majority of women say, 'I don't need you, I've got my money, I've got my stuff,' I say, 'I desperately need men.' My whole album is a tribute to men. It takes a man in me to tell you that I'm on my knees for men.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that issue.

Among the many international consequences of Barack Obama's stunning victory in the United States is worldwide introspection about whether such a breakthrough could happen elsewhere. Could a person of color win power in other white-majority countries?

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

Women in America cannot achieve our full economic and personal fulfillment as long as the concentration of wealth and power in the top 1% continues to stifle democratic voices and progressive policies.

Like many traditional feminists, I became one of the boys, only better. For a while it gave me a buzz to win at their game, but ultimately, that kind of power just goes nowhere. Traditional feminism excludes men and so perpetuates conflict. I am not interested in warring about power.

When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.

But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.

The no-secrets era of social media makes one consider the built-in risk factor of nominating high-testosterone men to positions of power at all. Everyone is under too much scrutiny now to take a chance on candidates who suddenly blow up into a comic meme, a punchline, a ribald hashtag.

I love being a woman. I love the sexiness we get to exude. But the best thing about being a woman is the power we have over men.

You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.

Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power... I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right.