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Quotes About Impact

The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.
~ Anna Howard Shaw
Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth.
~ Anna Howard Shaw
There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children
~ Amartya Sen
Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.
~ Ian Mcewan
And then theres always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.
~ Christiane Amanpour
My case was wrongfully decided and has caused great harm to the women and children of our nation.
~ Norma McCorvey
If the world was taking care of women, women would take care of the world.
~ Jane Roberts
If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
If women only knew the extent of their power!
~ Alphonse Karr
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
~ Alice Kahn
Like a stone thrown into a pond, a good deed can create ripples that extend far beyond the initial splash.
~ Jeanne Phillips
As the feminist saying goes, 'Women deliver.' In other words, when women control resources, the social gain is greater than when men control resources.
~ Linda Gordon
To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
We know what to do and we know how to do it, these investments save lives, empower women and girls, strengthen health systems and have a profound and lasting impact on development.
~ Babatunde Osotimehin
There are some women who are a good time and there are some women who are a good legacy.
~ Mark Driscoll
It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
~ Florence Ellinwood Allen
Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.
~ Mo Udall
What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy.
~ Ringo Starr
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
Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.
~ Aeschylus
His [Osama bin Laden]excessive use of terror, including numerous attacks that indiscriminately killed many women and children, and of course many Muslims, has hurt the attractiveness of his message.
~ Joseph Nye