Famous quotes containing the words permissible and/or power:
“We are almost always bored with people it is not permissible to be bored with.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“They [women] can use their abilities to support each other, even as they develop more effective and appropriate ways of dealing with power.... Women do not need to diminish other women ... [they] need the power to advance their own development, but they do not “need” the power to limit the development of others.”
—Jean Baker Miller (20th century)