The biggest problem that women have is being ambivalent about their own power,. . . We should be comfortable with the idea of wielding power. We shouldn't feel that it detracts from our femininity.
It is not power that corrupts but fear.
. . . liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the "establishment.
Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.