The Power of a Woman: Timeless Thoughts on a Woman's Inner Strengths (The Classic Wisdom Collection)
This slim book of quotations exhorts women to harness the power of their  minds, emotions, bodies, and spirituality. "Even the most repressed woman has a  secret life, with secret thoughts and secret feelings which are lush and wild, that is,  natural," instructs Clarissa Pinkola Estes. "Even the most captured woman  guards the place of the wildish self, for she knows intuitively that someday there will be a  loophole, an aperture, a chance and she will hightail it to escape." As stirring is  Nadine Stair's declaration: "If I had my life to live over again, I'd dare to make  more mistakes next time.... I would perhaps have more actual troubles, but I'd have  fewer imaginary ones." Other entries are pleasingly witty or sharp-tongued. Jokes  former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher darkly, "In politics, if you want  anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman."