A Woman S Influence Quotes

#1. A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

Honore De Balzac

#2. I understand the influence you have all too well. The commander will do exactly what you want, bend to your will. That alone should prove to you that strength is a woman's endowment, not a man's.

Cayla Kluver

#3. I wouldn't call myself a woman in bluegrass. I haven't really been a part of the world for a while. It's just been a big influence on who I am today.

Sara Watkins

#4. For a woman, every outfit is a hopeful spell, cast to influence the outcome of the day. An act of trying to predict your fate, like looking at your horoscope.

Caitlin Moran

#5. When a plain-looking woman is loved, it is certain to be very passionately ; for either her influence on her lover is irresistible, or she has some secret and more irresistible charms than those of beauty.

Jean De La Bruyere

#6. Thus, the critical dimension in understanding whether a marriage will work or not, becomes the extent to which the male can accept the influence of the woman he loves and become socialized in emotional communication.

John M. Gottman

#7. It s too great a
blow underlined
to a man apostrophe s
pride
to see a woman
influence other women
more than he can
himself

Don Marquis

#8. There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil
improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?"
"Are you a young lady?"
"I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.

Charlotte Bronte

#9. I read the script of [Woman Under the Influence ] 50 times. And I thought about it. And then I did it.

Gena Rowlands

#10. I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.

Lucy Stone

#11. Mrs. Tulliver, as we have seen, was not without influence over her husband. No woman is; she can always incline him to do either what she wishes, or the reverse ...

George Eliot

#12. The influence of woman is the same everywhere. Her condition influences the morals, manners, and character of the people of all countries. Where she is debased, society is debased; where she is morally pure and enlightened, society will be proportionately elevated.

Samuel Smiles

#13. John Cassavetes wrote A Woman Under the Influence as a play. He said, "Hey, I wrote you a play." And I said, "Great, let's read it." I read it and I said, "John, I couldn't do this every night and twice on Wednesday and Saturday".

Gena Rowlands

#14. To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position of such power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations, for to her comes the responsibility and opportunity of molding the nation's citizens.

Spencer W. Kimball

#15. You're an amazing woman ... a terrible influence, but an amazing woman.

Kim Holden

#16. The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

E. M. Forster

#17. If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.

Wesley Snipes

#18. It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.

Gloria Steinem

#19. The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist of her life, a sculptor of her universe, a person with rights and responsibilities who is respected and recognized, the resurrection of the world begins.

Joan D. Chittister

#20. Every man knows about a particular body part that often seems to have a mind of its own. And every woman knows how absurd men become when that is the body part they allow to influence their choices and decisions.

Neale Donald Walsch

#21. My wish for the American woman is that she may always be an elevating influence-man's inspiration. Let him go forth to duty while she weaves the spell which makes home a paradise to which he may return, ever welcome, whether he is victor or vanquished.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#22. For all of her influence on popular culture, and the remarkable performances she left behind, perhaps Farrah Fawcett's greatest legacy was her raw, intimate, honest portrait of a woman fighting for her life - against cancer.

Alana Stewart

#23. Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Josh Billings

#24. When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How can you write a middle-aged woman this well?' I said, 'If you met my mom you wouldn't ask'.

Joss Whedon

#25. In general, I hate films that are overtly either very masculine or very feminine, you know? The same way that I don't like a war movie about soldiers smashing people's heads. But a chick flick I like would be Cassavetes' movies. 'A Woman Under the Influence,' 'Husbands.'

Gael Garcia Bernal

#26. the work and achievements of hundreds of men of outstanding accomplishment, that there was the influence of a woman's love behind nearly every one of them.

Napoleon Hill

#27. In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'

Gaston Lachaise

#28. So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect ...

Ellen Glasgow

#29. It was a very hard play [Woman Under the Influence] to do every night. And John Cassavetes said, "Don't worry. Don't even think about it, you're right. I hadn't thought of that." He said, "Just forget it."

Gena Rowlands

#30. A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.

Ninon De L'Enclos

#31. I speak of plurality of wives as one of the most holy principles that God ever revealed to man, and all those who exercise an influence against it, unto whom it is taught, man or woman will be damned, and they and all who will be influenced by them, will suffer the buffetings of Satan in the flesh.

Heber C. Kimball

#32. The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.

John Stuart Mill

#33. One ordinary woman connected to an extraordinary God can make a difference

Pam Farrel

#34. Women have made of themselves such a weapon to act upon the senses that a young man, and even an old man, cannot remain tranquil in their presence. Watch a popular festival, or our receptions or ball-rooms. Woman well knows her influence there. You will see it in her triumphant smiles.

Leo Tolstoy

#35. The influence of woman will ever be exercised directly in all good or evil. Give her, then, such light as she is capable of receiving.

Sydney, Lady Morgan

#36. Man is at his best when complimented by the influence of a good woman.

Ezra Taft Benson

#37. But I would say maybe just from an actress's perspective, probably 'Woman Under the Influence' is the best movie of all time. The style of filmmaking and the performances ... you don't feel like you're watching a film.

Olivia Thirlby

#38. A Woman Under the Influence was my favorite. I loved doing that. And it was challenging.

Gena Rowlands

#39. When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

Akhenaton

#40. Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be.

Ellen Galinsky

#41. A woman's sphere of influence is a unique sphere, one that cannot be duplicated by men.

M. Russell Ballard

#42. We frequently find that the influence of good women is underrated. It is an influence that is often subtle but yet has tremendous consequences. One woman can make a great difference for a whole nation.

James E. Faust

#43. I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister
anything a woman can be to a man. The idea of you is part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me.

Willa Cather

#44. Nobody can influence me, nobody. Still less a woman. Women are important in a man's life only if they're beautiful and charming and keep their femininity.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#45. I have been grateful for the influence of my grandmother and my grandfather in my life. I remember my grandmother as a queenly woman. My father could be stern, and my grandparents would remind him that we were just boys.

James E. Faust

#46. Through becoming aware of how the inner man and woman relates and communicates inside ourselves, it creates a joy and satisfaction in the three life areas that they influence: our meditation and inner growth, our relationships and our work and creativity.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#47. Tis the curse of a woman of influence that she must always be reckoned unvirtuous.

Susanna Kearsley

#48. The real work of feminism is to empower a woman and to give her language to express a new value system for the world. The new feminism must create both the process by which we generate influence and the influence itself.

Elizabeth Lesser

#49. A woman could be the wind beneath a man's sails or a gale to send him into uncharted waters. She could be an anchor in stormy seas, or she could let him drift into the rocks.

Francine Rivers

#50. The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.

Jack Kemp

#51. In years and years not one of them has been in contact with a good woman, or within the influence, or redemption, which irresistibly radiates from such a creature. There

Jack London

#52. An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being; and the man or woman who feels strongly, healthily and justly, on the great interests of humanity, is a constant benefactor to the human race.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#53. I should never, perhaps, have heard even the name of the woman who has lived in all my thoughts, who has possessed herself of all my energies, who has become the one guiding influence that now directs the purpose of my life.

Wilkie Collins

#54. When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.

Ellen Key