"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself." ― Gloria Steinem Topic(s): Power More From Gloria Steinem "We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters." "Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one." "We’ll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth." More In Power "It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak."― Eric Hoffer "Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country."― Ambrose Bierce "I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I’ve done, is there’s only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads."― Lawrence Kasdan