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!


Barbara Ehrenreich: A free-enterprise economy...

Barbara Ehrenreich: A free-enterprise economy...

A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic...

More about this quote

Peggy Noonan: Sincerity and competence...

Peggy Noonan: Sincerity and competence...

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

More about this quote

Dorothea Brande: The Wright brothers...

Dorothea Brande: The Wright brothers...

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Source: In The...

More about this quote

Katharine Whitehorn: I wouldn't say...

Katharine Whitehorn: I wouldn't say...

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling...

More about this quote

Gail Sheehy: We hear the...

Gail Sheehy: We hear the...

We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any...

More about this quote

Colette Dowling: Now [the Cinderella...

Colette Dowling: Now [the Cinderella...

Now [the Cinderella Complex] tends to hit women after college . . . . When the first thrill of freedom subsides and...

More about this quote

Marsha Sinetar: You may feel...

Marsha Sinetar: You may feel...

You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don't do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered,...

More about this quote

Anne Frank: I don't believe...

Anne Frank: I don't believe...

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little...

More about this quote

Rona Barrett: Sophia Loren is...

Rona Barrett: Sophia Loren is...

Sophia Loren is the embodiment of what a woman should be -- the epitome of femaleness. Most of the young people today...

More about this quote

Clementine Paddleford: Beer is the...

Clementine Paddleford: Beer is the...

Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.

More about this quote

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: Creativity varies inversely...

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: Creativity varies inversely...

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

Source:...

More about this quote

Mary Kay Ash: Aerodynamically the bumblebee...

Mary Kay Ash: Aerodynamically the bumblebee...

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know it, so it goes on flying...

More about this quote

Elizabeth Arden: I'm not interested...

Elizabeth Arden: I'm not interested...

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you...

More about this quote

Paula Nelson: The best business...

Paula Nelson: The best business...

The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how...

More about this quote

Susan RoAne: Networking is an...

Susan RoAne: Networking is an...

Networking is an enrichment program, not an entitlement program.

Source: In Words...

More about this quote

Katharine Graham: Bromidic though it...

Katharine Graham: Bromidic though it...

Bromidic though it may sound, some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to...

More about this quote

Anna Pavlova: No one can...

Anna Pavlova: No one can...

No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent, work transforms talent into...

More about this quote

Martha Graham: The past is...

Martha Graham: The past is...

The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or...

More about this quote

Amy Lowell: Books are more...

Amy Lowell: Books are more...

Books are more than books. They are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and...

More about this quote

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: The splendid discontent...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: The splendid discontent...

The splendid discontent of God
With chaos made the world.


Source: Discontent,...

More about this quote

Page 126 of 329


(C)2026 Quotable Women - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Women
Harrisonburg, VA