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Quotes About Influence

Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.
~ Ellen Goodman
You do the best you can. But it's hard. When I find things egregiously misrepresentative of women, I'll make a point to say to my son, "Turn that off. I don't want to see women behave that way.
~ Reese Witherspoon
There are so many women out there relying on me to represent them.
~ Sheryl Swoopes
If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.
~ Sally Ride
My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn't any consistency.
~ Kevin Hart
I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
~ Kate Millett
Women move through the world never knowing their power.
~ Adriana Trigiani
I'm more influenced by characters than standups. I love strong, comic women, because it's so hard and I have so much respect for anyone who can do it.
~ Amy Hoggart
Girls who lead turn in to women who thrive.
~ Anna Maria Chavez
Economic opportunities will win the women's vote.
~ Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness.
~ Frederick Lenz
They have rejected that power and sought to convince women of the exact opposite, that they are powerless.
~ Frederick Lenz
Men, through the ideas they have, project a field of attention that limits women.
~ Frederick Lenz
The second attention is the occult side of the being. It is the ability to manipulate others, be it for good or ill intent.
~ Frederick Lenz
What women have done is developed a survival mechanism, and it's a fascinating one and it's been effective and justified, in my opinion. That is the ability to manipulate men sexually.
~ Frederick Lenz
Women wrap men with their second attention.
~ Frederick Lenz
It's everyday for a woman to project a very strong wave of sexual energy through her second attention into a man, for him to assume that the energy he feels is his own.
~ Frederick Lenz
The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.
~ Oscar Wilde
Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
~ Gertrude Stein
The attention that's being projected by men who simply watch you walking down the street, in the office, or in bed, in most cases, is going to be extremely destructive.
~ Frederick Lenz
Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
~ Patricia Cornwell
I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinionated. There's not enough women like that on the screen.
~ Melonie Diaz
The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.
~ Gloria Steinem
I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.
~ Ronan Farrow