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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    ... even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly eat from the hands of the bondman without being mindful that he is such. O, Slavery, hateful thing that thou art thus to blunt the keen edge of conscience!
    Susan B. Anthony (1820–1907)

    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?
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)