Sharon Stone reflected on moving beyond her image as a “sex symbol” in Hollywood while accepting an award for her philanthropic work and advocacy for women’s rights at Variety’s Power of Women event Wednesday.

The iconic actress — who rose to fame in the 1992 erotic thriller “Basic Instinct” — stopped to chat with Page Six on the red carpet ahead of the star-studded ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles.

“I think that it’s very important to recognize that we are all women of power and influence, because women, by the very fact of being a woman, [are] powerful and influential,” she told us.

Stone, 68, pointed toward the everyday…

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