# The Power

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Naomi Alderman ]]
- Full Title: The Power
- Category: #books

## Highlights
- It follows that there are two ways for the nature and use of human power to change. One is that an order might issue from the palace, a command unto the people saying “It is thus.” But the other, the more certain, the more inevitable, is that those thousand thousand points of light should each send a new message. When the people change, the palace cannot hold. ([Location 111](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01N0Z1EY0&location=111))
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- It doesn’t matter that she shouldn’t, that she never would. What matters is that she could, if she wanted. The power to hurt is a kind of wealth. ([Location 1078](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01N0Z1EY0&location=1078))
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- “They have said to you that man rules over woman as Jesus rules over the Church. But I say unto you that woman rules over man as Mary guided her infant son, with kindness and with love. ([Location 1223](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01N0Z1EY0&location=1223))