Feminine Influence Quotes

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion, give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves; it will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint, and it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so, for they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration

I lived with my mom and sister, so I'm more used to dealing with women.

As women go, so goes civilization.

If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior

It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business, if you have begun to fit them out. Nor are these two things ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them.

The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc.

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

The world will be saved by the western woman.

A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.

With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.

Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.

Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.

I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.

Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by his imagination to be anything above a cavalryman, a theologian or a corporation director.

I've always liked women more. I was brought up by my mother and older sister. I found my way into dance class.

Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don't really fight with them. I relinquished control years ago.

'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.

The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.

I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.

All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.