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Quotes About Influence

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
~ Olive Schreiner
Woman is superlative; the best leader in life, the best guide in happy days, the best consoler in sorrow.
~ Johann Gottfried Seume
I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.
~ Carolina Herrera
In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
~ Mario Puzo
It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.
~ Carolyn See
Without your voice being heard in Washington, the decisions we make aren't as good. I would urge women to consider public service. And if you want to run, give me a call. I'll help.
~ Kirsten Gillibrand
Women saw everything, and they thought about everything. The result was wisdom. For men, this was a frightening state of affairs, which is why they insist on holding on to power.
~ Tamar Myers
Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities.
~ Wilma Mankiller
There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
~ Vera Farmiga
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
~ Bella Abzug
Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending . . . when women do better, economies do better.
~ Christine Lagarde
There is no life that does not contribute to history.
~ Dorothy West
In the future, women, rather than men, will be the ones to change the world.
~ Malala Yousafzai
My mother was a dominant force in our family. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.
~ Dolores Huerta
In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.
~ Natsuo Kirino, Grotesque
There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
I think women can save civilization.
~ Emily Murphy
If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for their suffrages we sue.
~ Louisa Lawson
We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women's voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
Empower us women and we will change this whole entire world.
~ Alicia Keys
Women have all the power because women have all the vaginas.
~ Dave Attell
It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn't be here.
~ William Randolph Hearst