- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power Quotes
Lines on power, wherever it shows up.
Rather than sticking to one definition, this set moves between the power of computing infrastructure, a hitter's power at the plate, and the power a film has to hold a room the way old storytelling once did. Compare notes on strength and character in our Great page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all have so much more power to make our dreams a reality - and love life along the way - than we think we do!
- Doors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite girls' sparkling resumes - including rates of college enrollment and high school grades that outstrip boys - sexism is a barrier that still leaves girls ambivalent about power. Opening doors has not amounted to ambition to lead for many of them, even those with options, networks, and resources.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the age of girl power, we're loath to send a message of surrender to our girls. To the contrary: we've doubled down on giving them permission to speak up and fight for their rights. This is a good thing.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes true girl power means accepting that we are actually vulnerable and even powerless - then figuring out how to adapt and have our needs met in other ways.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Girls must understand not only their moral obligation but their power to be allies to each other at parties and other potentially unsafe spaces for girls.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
From childhood to adolescence, girls face mixed messages about displaying power and authority.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet has transformed the landscape of children's social lives, moving cliques from lunchrooms and lockers to live chats and online bulletin boards and intensifying their reach and power.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I believe about race is that race is not real. It's not a biological reality. It's a hierarchical system that was created to leverage power and privilege between different groups of people.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.
- Who
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!
- Baby
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- Nov 07, 2020
Interestingly, I was in D.C. in 2000, when George Bush was inaugurated. With our baby in her stroller, my husband and I were confronted with hundreds of angry protesters hell-bent on destroying what should have been a bi-partisan celebration of the 'peaceful transition of power'.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020