Educating Rita - Influence

Influence

Geoffrey Sampson explains the title of his 1997 book, Educating Eve: The 'Language Instinct' Debate, as a deliberate allusion to Educating Rita.

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Famous quotes containing the word influence:

    “What do women want with votes, when they hold the sceptre of influence with which they can control even votes, if they wield it aright?”
    —Mrs. H. O. Ward (1824–1899)

    “No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king!”
    —Eliza “Mother” Stewart (1816–c. 1908)

    “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.”
    —HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)