"The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more."
-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.“
-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves."
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"My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings."
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"My dreams were all my own I accounted for them to nobody they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free."
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"The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food."
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"I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves."
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix
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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
-Michel Foucault
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"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
-John Steinbeck
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
-David Brin
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