Welcome to the Quotable Women Collection

Quotable Women, like BeMoreCreative.com, encourages thinking, working, and living more creatively. Creativity is "the power to connect the seemingly unconnected" (W. Plommer). To support this work, we earn a small affiliate commission. Please browse creatively!


Natalie Clifford Barney: Renouncement: the heroism...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Renouncement: the heroism...

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Source: Quoted in: Gods, in Adam, no. 299...

More about this quote

Rachel Field: There was no...

Rachel Field: There was no...

There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities...

More about this quote

Mary Martha Sherwood: The book of...

Mary Martha Sherwood: The book of...

The book of Nature, my dear Henry, is full of holy lessons, ever new and ever varied; and to learn to discover these...

More about this quote

Margaret Halsey: Life itself, however,...

Margaret Halsey: Life itself, however,...

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize...

More about this quote

Barbara Bush: You don't just...

Barbara Bush: You don't just...

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is...

More about this quote

Eleanor Roosevelt: You must do...

Eleanor Roosevelt: You must do...

You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.

Source: In The Book of Success,...

More about this quote

Mary Robinson: I was elected...

Mary Robinson: I was elected...

I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the...

More about this quote

Anne Wilson Schaef: It is not...

Anne Wilson Schaef: It is not...

It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end.

Source:...

More about this quote

Marguerite Duras: It's afterwards you...

Marguerite Duras: It's afterwards you...

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved...

More about this quote

Colette: You will do...

Colette: You will do...

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Source: In The Speaker's...

More about this quote

Margaret Walker: I want my...

Margaret Walker: I want my...

I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song -- the fusion of the...

More about this quote

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Life is obstinate...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Life is obstinate...

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

Source: Frankenstein,...

More about this quote

Toni Morrison: Bryn Mawr had...

Toni Morrison: Bryn Mawr had...

Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eighty per cent of...

More about this quote

Toni Morrison: I wrote my...

Toni Morrison: I wrote my...

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

Source:
-- Toni Morrison,...

More about this quote

Louisa May Alcott: I'm not afraid...

Louisa May Alcott: I'm not afraid...

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Source: In The...

More about this quote

Johnnetta Betsch Cole: The woman who...

Johnnetta Betsch Cole: The woman who...

The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound...

More about this quote

Margot Asquith: He has a...

Margot Asquith: He has a...

He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.

Source: Referring to Sir Stafford...

More about this quote

Jessamyn West: Teaching is the...

Jessamyn West: Teaching is the...

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

More about this quote

Margaret Chase Smith: One of the...

Margaret Chase Smith: One of the...

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They...

More about this quote

Barbara Mikulski: America is not...

Barbara Mikulski: America is not...

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

Source: Speech, First...

More about this quote

Page 100 of 329


(C)2026 Quotable Women - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Women
Harrisonburg, VA