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Quotes About Influence

Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.
~ Storm Jameson
It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
~ Florence Ellinwood Allen
It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.
~ Helen Gahagan Douglas
What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.
~ George Bernard Shaw
To transform the world women need to demand their place - which is not equal, but superior.
~ Patti LuPone
That it's possible to do positive things and I think that's how we're going to set an example to be respected as women in the world.
~ Misty Copeland
One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.
~ John McGraw
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy.
~ Ringo Starr
The female rock-'n'-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it's women like her who are going to save the music business.
~ Stevie Nicks
Jessica Pearson isn't a unicorn. She's not a mythological creature. She's an example of so many women out there that are ruling their part of the world and doing an incredible job.
~ Gina Torres
For we think back through our mothers if we are women.
~ Virginia Woolf
The Church will never reach her full redemptive potential until men and women with the leadership gift step up and lead.
~ Bill Hybels
Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.
~ Laura Schlessinger
I probably had some impact, because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I'm coming out with something to try to make room for other young women to make their art.
~ Liz Phair
I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
~ Mae West
Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.
~ Jon Bon Jovi
Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Women are the centre of the family. It's the woman who decides what's eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children's health revolves around her.
~ Melinda Gates
Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.
~ Aeschylus
A new study found that women think men holding a guitar are more attractive, even if they are not playing it. In a related story, guys with an accordion will die alone.
~ Jimmy Fallon