Powerful

Famous quotes containing the word powerful:

“One of the reasons for the failure of feminism to dislodge deeply held perceptions of male and female behaviour was its insistence that women were victims, and men powerful patriarchs, which made a travesty of ordinary people’s experience of the mutual interdependence of men and women.”
—Rosalind Coward (b. 1953)

“Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.”
—Harold Clurman (1901–1980)

“A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)