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Money is hardly neutral. Its connection to power makes it a highly charged social phenomenon and a mediator of relationships. Because it has historically been controlled by men, it has given men a tool for controlling women.

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

In some ways, privileged women who are closer to power wind up being able to exert their influence in ways that change public policy in ways that women with less power don't have access to.

People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.

Women's currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.

There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.

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

I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.

I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble.