ABSTRACT
The moment a woman of any age thinks that power is masculine, the natural prerogative of males but not females, she relinquishes an essential element of her human endowment. This erroneous thought impoverishes women psychologically by limiting their imagination of how to be vital, effective, thoughtful people in the world. It impoverishes culture by undermining the many important ways in which women can, should, and already do exercise social, economic, and political power.
