Quotes About Influence

Girls do what their mothers tell them. Ladies do what society tells them. Women make up their own minds.

I think Shonda Rhimes came to change television for women forever.

What I've heard from younger women and women my age is that the albums changed their lives or it was the first time they had heard feminism that they could relate to. So that's great.

Women have to stop pretending the choices we make, particularly if we have a platform, don't affect others. We have to be held accountable.

Donald Trump has always had women around him in powerful positions. That's true in his corporation, in his campaign, and now his cabinet.

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

You need younger men in Africa, men and women in African politics.

I think a lot of girls look up to me because I'm a strong woman.

I'm the kind of woman who, when she walks into a party, all the other women leave the room.

There are a lot of women that I think are very powerful and would be great presidents.

Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son's new wife.

A lot of what children go through is because you adults don't carry the burden yourself.

Nothing is irresistible. There is no feeling that is irresistible.

'What's your favorite position?' 'CEO.'

I've had great people come in my life, meaning not just men, but women, support me and empower me. So that has lifted me to be the woman I am.

Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.

Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful.

I know my name will always be linked with women.

Women who have strong identities, who know themselves, really inspire me.

These impossible women! How they do get around us!

Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.

Women's bodies are used to sell anything and everything because it works, it grabs people's attention, and advertisers aren't going to stop using something that works.

My mission in life was to make sure that there were no women walking around who didn't know me personally.

I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.