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The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

— Roseanne Barr

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

— Katharine Graham

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

— Lincoln Steffens

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

— Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

I want to empower women.

— Alexander McQueen

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

— Alison Pill

I really want women to appreciate their power. It was obvious to me that lots of people are comfortable with power, and they see what it can do, but women's expression of it was never as comprehensive as it could be. It seemed like an amazing gift that Oxygen could give.

— Cheryl Mills

✗Opposing Perspectives

Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

— Cher

If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.

— Liya Kebede

I have found that women have so much unleashed power that they don't really utilize because they don't have confidence in themselves about who they are and what they can do.

— Caitlyn Jenner

Women don't realize how powerful they are.

— Judith Light