Power Alley

Famous quotes containing the words power and/or alley:

“... the most important effect of the suffrage is psychological. The permanent consciousness of power for effective action, the knowledge that their own thoughts have an equal chance with those of any other person ... this is what has always rendered the men of a free state so energetic, so acutely intelligent, so powerful.”
—Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842–1906)

“In the mind there is a thin alley called death
and I move through it as
through water.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)