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We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'
Libba Bray
Anger
Woman
Women
Power
Daring
Most
Comfortable
Accepting
Question
Roles
Want
Ask
Certain
Fully
Expressing
I think models have a lot less power than they did in the '80s, when there were, like, only 10 supermodels who could dictate the rules, whereas now there's so many, and that changes the power dynamic and makes it a more insecure business.
Lily Cole
Business
Power
Think
Changes
Rules
Insecure
More
Only
Could
Like
Makes
Were
Lot
Dictate
Than
Did
Models
Whereas
Dynamic
Less
Who
Many
Now
America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.
Lincoln Chafee
War
Power
Military
Cold
Cold War
Summit
Emerging
Economic
Equal
Force
Without
Cultural
America
Stood
Military Force
The American revolution not only cost Britain the 13 colonies but also forced it to rethink the slave trade and slavery, and influenced its power relations in Asia and the Pacific.
Linda Colley
Power
Revolution
Relations
Cost
Only
Colonies
Rethink
Also
Forced
Trade
American
Influenced
Pacific
Asia
American Revolution
Slave
Slavery
Britain
Any kind of new U.K. federal system would almost certainly demand the creation of a written constitution. Properly drafted, such a document could, among many things, pin down more effectively the proper dimensions of prime ministerial power.
Linda Colley
Constitution
Power
Creation
Down
Dimensions
System
Kind
Ministerial
Would
Proper
Properly
More
Could
Federal
Written
Almost
Demand
Prime
New
Document
Pin
Effectively
Any
Certainly
Many
Among
Things
Drafted
'Ebony''s Power 100 list highlights African-Americans who exemplify brilliance in the fields of entertainment, arts, business and others.
Linda Johnson Rice
Entertainment
Business
Power
Others
Highlights
List
Arts
Fields
Who
Brilliance
Women need to find the courage to demand what they rightfully deserve. Women should be paid for the same work as their male counterparts, ask for promotions, and stand in their power in their place of employment, whether they are in a boardroom or in the movement.
Linda Sarsour
Work
Courage
Women
Power
Rightfully
Find
Promotions
Counterparts
Demand
Employment
Male
Same
Movement
Whether
Place
Ask
Should
Stand
Paid
Deserve
Need
Authors are free to ignore their editors' advice. I often avail myself of this veto power - sometimes out of a pigheadedness for which I'll pay the price.
Lionel Shriver
Myself
Sometimes
Free
Power
Advice
Pay
Out
Price
Editors
Veto
Authors
Often
Which
Avail
Ignore
The premiere of Lynne Ramsay's film of 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' at the Cannes film festival provides an apt juncture at which to celebrate the miraculous power - not of film but of fiction. Lo, I have created a monster.
Lionel Shriver
Celebrate
Power
Monster
Apt
About
Miraculous
Talk
Provides
Juncture
Festival
Fiction
Cannes
Which
Created
Premiere
Film
Film Festival
Need
Kevin
Some of history's cleverest business minds understood the power of share platforms, from the aggressive titans who made fortunes building the nation's railroads, to Conrad Hilton, who created the first premier brand of international hotels.
Lisa Gansky
History
Business
Made
Power
First
Building
Nation
Aggressive
Minds
Some
Share
Hotels
Hilton
Cleverest
Understood
Brand
Titans
Created
Premier
Fortunes
Who
International
Platforms
Railroads
A new model is starting to take root and grow, one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more power to guide these choices. I call this emerging model 'The Mesh.'
Lisa Gansky
Power
Tools
Guide
Emerging
More
More Power
Take
Consumers
New
Mesh
Call
Model
Information
Which
Root
Choices
Grow
Starting
I will do everything, everything in my power, for as long as I am here, to enable the people of King Cove to receive proper emergency access that the rest of us take for granted.
Lisa Murkowski
People
Take For Granted
Will
Rest
King
Long
Power
Everything
Emergency
Proper
Take
Access
Enable
Am
Us
Granted
Receive
Here
My friend and I were talking about the band Limp Wrist, and how cool that name is, so we started bouncing other queer-punk band names off each other. The first one I thought of was The Power Bottoms, which I later shortened to Power Bottom.
Liv Bruce
Thought
Power
First
Band
Other
Later
About
My Friend
Wrist
Bottom
Bouncing
Name
Names
First One
Talking
How
Limp
Were
Off
Friend
Which
Shortened
Cool
Each
Started
Being with Prince and the New Power Generation, I was very influenced by those sounds, and now I'm more than ready to show that side of me with confidence.
Liv Warfield
Me
Confidence
Generation
Power
Side
Those
More
New
Prince
Ready
Sounds
Very
Than
Being
Influenced
Show
Now
When I'm on stage, it's such a spiritual moment that I hope, even when we hit 'Fallon,' you can feel that through the TV. I have this whole horn section that's part of New Power Generation; I have an amazing crew of musicians behind me. It's their energy, too.
Liv Warfield
Hope
Spiritual
Me
You
Musicians
Generation
Amazing
Power
Stage
Energy
Crew
Too
Section
TV
Horn
Through
Part
Feel
New
Hit
Behind
Moment
Whole
Even
I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during that minute - prayer, contemplation, focus - is up to them.
Liz Williams
Prayer
Focus
Power
Think
Lies
Silent
Minute
Direction
Participants
Contemplation
Up
Lack
Them
Inherent
Actually
External
I see 'Grace' as an affectionate refusal of things that just aren't true. With all our power and money and influence, we still can't raise up high over people's consciousness.
Lizz Wright
People
Grace
Money
Power
Our
High
See
True
Over
Still
Affectionate
Up
Just
Refusal
Influence
Things
Consciousness
Raise
If you are confident in yourself and however you want yourself to be presented, and you're doing well and doing it because you want to do it and not because someone is pressuring you, then more power to you.
Lizzo
You
Yourself
Power
Someone
More
More Power
Well
Because
Doing
However
Confident
Want
Then
Presented
In the end, the Foreign Ministry had no power at all to do anything.
Lloyd Cutler
Power
Ministry
Had
Foreign
End
Anything
In The End
Being part of social movements like Black Lives Matter or organizations like NAACP, or any group representing a cause, gives you more resources, knowledge, and power. They can help you use your voice.
Logan Browning
Knowledge
You
Cause
Matter
Black
Power
Group
Resources
More
Voice
Gives
Part
NAACP
Like
Any
Representing
Being
Movements
Social
Use
Your
Organizations
Social Movements
Help
Lives
When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power.
Lois Lowry
Racism
Words
World
Language
Poverty
Power
Society
Fluency
Bad
Futuristic
Sexism
Only
Giver
Mythical
Divorce
Attention
Contained
Also
Wrote
Precision
So-Called
After
Pollution
Paid
Utopian
Violence
Set
Careful
In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.
Lord Hailsham
Politics
Power
Melted
Always
Center
Confrontation
Away
Soft
I think that the people who come from communities like me as an African-American woman, as a member of the LGBT community, we haven't sat in the corners of power.
Lori Lightfoot
Me
Woman
People
Power
Community
Think
Corners
Member
Come
Like
African-American
Communities
Who
Sat
Romance novels have the power to bring love into the lives of readers. Through the characters, we get to fall in love every time we pick up a romance novel. What could be better than that?
Lori Wilde
Love
Time
Better
Power
Fall
Every
Every Time
Characters
Could
Through
Pick
Readers
Up
Than
Get
Romance
Novel
Novels
Lives
Bring
My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.
Lorna Luft
Mother
Power
Extraordinary
Vividly
Onstage
Had
Over
She
Audiences
Electric
Recall
Her
'Saturday Night Live' has always been, you know, non-partisan - whoever's in power should probably be challenged.
Lorne Michaels
You
Power
Live
Know
Always
Been
Should
Whoever
Challenged
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Night
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