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30 most powerful women in early 21st century America
Rank	Name	Score card	Quote from magazine
1	Oprah Winfrey	Cultural clout: 100 Financial impact: 90 Achievement: 90 Visibility: 95 Power to influence: 95 Intellectual impact: 85 Political know-how: 50 Staying power: 85 Total score: 90	To her largely female audience, she is still everybody's best girlfriend. That's the kind of power no one can challenge.
2	File:O'Connor, Sandra.jpg Sandra Day O'Connor	Cultural clout: 80 Financial impact: 100 Achievement: 95 Visibility: 40 Power to influence: 80 Intellectual impact: 90 Political know-how: 95 Staying power: 90 Total score: 84	But her extraordinary power comes largely from her role on a divided court -- with O'Connor often casting the deciding vote.
3	Martha Stewart	Cultural clout: 75 Financial impact: 70 Achievement: 80 Visibility: 70 Power to influence: 90 Intellectual impact: 15 Political know-how: 10 Staying power: 75 Total score: 65	She's produced 27 books, selling 9.5 million copies, publishes one magazine (and a number of spin-offs) with a combined circulation of around 10 million, runs a Web site, writes the widely syndicated "Ask Martha" column, has TV and radio shows, orchestrated retail deals that bring in hundreds of millions of dollars, and still finds time to star in Kmart ads.
4	File:TheViewCurrent.jpg Barbara Walters
5	Hillary Clinton
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7	Ruth Bader Ginsburg
8	Katie Couric
9	File:Britney-Spears082.jpg Britney Spears
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11	Julia Roberts
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13	File:Madonnact.JPG Madonna
14	Condoleezza Rice
15	Dianne Sawyer
16	File:Sherry Oscar.jpg Sherry Lansing
17	Carly Fiorina
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20	Faith Hill
21		Cultural clout: 30 Financial impact: 60 Achievement: 70 Visibility: 30 Power to influence: 30 Intellectual impact: 25 Political know-how: 40 Staying power: 60 Total score: 43	As Goldman, Sach's chief investment strategist, Joseph Cohen still moves the market.
22	Karen Hughes	Cultural clout: 30 Financial impact: 45 Achievement: 65 Visibility: 45 Power to influence: 10 Intellectual impact: 30 Political know-how: 90 Staying power: 40 Total score: 42	Time magazine has described her as "the adviser closest to Bush."
23	Danielle Steel	Cultural clout: 30 Financial impact: 40 Achievement: 60 Visibility: 40 Power to influence: 10 Intellectual impact: 10 Political know-how: 75 Staying power: 90 Total score: 41	Though her steamy potboilers about the rich and famous are never popular with literary critics, she nonetheless holds the title of First Lady of Romantic Fiction.
24	File:CarolineKennedy.jpg Caroline Kennedy	Cultural clout: 40 Financial impact: 20 Achievement: 30 Visibility: 70 Power to influence: 10 Intellectual impact: 35 Political know-how: 50 Staying power: 90 Total score: 40	Now that it is up to her alone to carry on the legacy of her father and mother, this Harvard and Columbia-educated constitutional lawyer and author is becoming more of a presence on the national scene.
25	Venus Williams	Cultural clout: 25 Financial impact: 40 Achievement: 80 Visibility: 60 Power to influence: 45 Intellectual impact: 10 Political know-how: 10 Staying power: 30 Total score: 39	With back-to-back Wimbledon tennis titles to her name -- not to mention the 2000 women's U.S. Open title and two gold medals from the Sydney Olympics, 20-year-old Venus Williams carries a lot of clout.
26	Laura Bush	Cultural clout: 40 Financial impact: 10 Achievement: 30 Visibility: 70 Power to influence: 35 Intellectual impact: 20 Political know-how: 80 Staying power: 50 Total score: 38	She's powerful, but not a powerbroker, which is exactly the way she wants it.
27	Maya Angelou	Cultural clout: 30 Financial impact: 5 Achievement: 75 Visibility: 20 Power to influence: 15 Intellectual impact: 75 Political know-how: 15 Staying power: 70 Total score: 37	Less visible than many on our list, Angelou remains a potent moral and intellectual voice.
28	Kay Bailey Hutchison	Cultural clout: 25 Financial impact: 30 Achievement: 60 Visibility: 10 Power to influence: 15 Intellectual impact: 25 Political know-how: 85 Staying power: 70 Total score: 36	Her friendship with her state's former governor, the current president of the U.S., adds to her standing inside the Beltway.
29	Toni Morrison	Cultural clout: 15 Financial impact: 10 Achievement: 80 Visibility: 5 Power to influence: 10 Intellectual impact: 100 Political know-how: 10 Staying power: 75 Total score: 35	Morrison has drawn untold numbers of readers into the communities she has created and into the African-American experience, always raising issues that are easier pushed aside.
30	File:Jennifer lopez2.jpg Jennifer Lopez	Cultural clout: 50 Financial impact: 25 Achievement: 35 Visibility: 60 Power to influence: 35 Intellectual impact: 10 Political know-how: 10 Staying power: 20 Total score: 34	She may yet have staying power, but she's got to be around a few more years before we know for sure.