“But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' that was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.”

short quotes, 2 April 1967; p. 63
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)

Female Power http://www.julienewmarwrites.com/story.php?idStory=122 (April 28, 2017)

Bill Moyers interview (2002)
Context: I understood really the power of art to transform. I think transformation became the main word in my life.
Transformation because you don't want to just put a mirror in front of people and say, here, look at yourself. What do you see? You want to have a skewed mirror. You want a mirror that says you didn't know you could see the back of your head. You didn't know that you could amount cubistic see almost all the same aspects at the same time. It allows human beings to step out of their lives and to revisit it and maybe find something different about it.

1910s, The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)

"Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual", interview in History of the Present 4 (Spring 1988)

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

Letter to Lucy Martin Donnelly, February 10, 1916
1910s

Preface.
The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717)
Context: I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice versa a whole Poem for the sake of some particular lines. I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

"The Shape and a Smile," p. 10
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Home of the Shape”