Quotes About Influence

It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.

I think Betty White is one of the sexiest women in America.

We as women are always watching movies and if you want to be cool you have to identify with the man in the movie.

There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time.

The world's always been run by women.

In civilized society, women have the ultimate power. It's women who say "no," in civilized society. That's what you feminists never have understood.

I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.

New York is a much younger city that drives culture. In Paris, older women drive the culture - really drive culture.

It's hard to argue with the government. Remember, they are they run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, so they must know a thing or two about satisfying women.

Women had enormous weight in America. And they still have. Because they are truly the padrone [owners, masters] of America.

Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.

Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous.

Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on, only to find themselves in a sort of straitjacket.

In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.

Even the most powerful women I know go out of their way to say that they're not really interested in power. Imagine a man saying that.

I know all about the tyranny of women.

As women become more educated and confident, they can start adding their voice.

So few women have any clear idea of the power their ordinary beauty holds over so many of us men.

The ability to have our own way, and at the same time convince others they are having their own way, is a rare thing among men. Among women it is as common as eyebrows.

The demise of our community and culture is the fault of sissified men who have been overly influenced by women.

I think women secretly yearn for the return of John Wayne and don't even know it.

I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.

If you've been on the covers of some magazines and been in a few movies that have been seen by people, for some reason, women seem to be drawn to you.

I believe women are the glue of everything.