I don’t feel powerful at all. I am still under this kind of detention, and you know, this is kind of a bail. Even yesterday I realized while trying to take care of the baby, [at] the park, [I had] been secretly followed and it’s quite fragile. Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

I did not capture power. I was made to assume power.

The powerful are not as powerful as they seem – nor the weak as weak

Resistance to painful information on the grounds that we cannot do anything about it springs less from powerlessness (as measured by our capacity to effect change) than from the fear of feeling powerless.

For me—as I think it is for a lot of women and girls—I felt that they were figures that had power, and I felt very powerless," she said. "It was just very exciting and thrilling to think of a witch who didn't care if she was portrayed as ugly—which of course, I felt like I was—or not beautiful enough or whatever, but still had power and didn't need to be rescued.

I wasn’t feeling so invincible at the moment. Defiant, maybe. Anything but content. Surrounded on all sides. As far as I could see, nothing was visible.

I felt weak, perhaps I was.

Already then, there was in my subconsciousness as unsatisfactoriness about powerlessness, which was accompanied by being locked in a cage, whereby made taking an initiative, of any kind, impossible

I thought I couldn't die. And I really believed it. I know better now. But I'm glad I didn't know better then.

I've never been helpless, I just have powerful enemies

Fear comes from a lack of understanding how powerful you really are.

I feel powerless all the time, but I regain my energy by making a very small difference that won’t cost me much.

How frozen I became and powerless then, Ask it not, reader, for I write it not, Because all language would be insufficient. I did not die, and I alive remained not. Think for thyself now, hast though ought of wit, What I became, being of both deprived.

People say I am powerful but I care more about impactful – in the work I do with children, adolescents, women or even institutions. Those who observe can say, ‘you are powerful,’ but it doesn’t come from me to say I am powerful.