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!


Dinah Shore: The best money...

Dinah Shore: The best money...

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything...

More about this quote

Joanna Baillie: Sweet sleep be...

Joanna Baillie: Sweet sleep be...

Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!
And if upon its stillness fall
The visions of a busy brain,
We'll have...

More about this quote

Lucille Clifton: i keep hearing...

Lucille Clifton: i keep hearing...

i keep hearing
tree talk
water words
and i keep knowing what they mean.


More about this quote

Mari Evans: If we have...

Mari Evans: If we have...

If we have the Word let us
say it
If we have the Word let us
be it
If we have the Word let...

More about this quote

Mary Caroline Richards: It helps, I...

Mary Caroline Richards: It helps, I...

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to...

More about this quote

Ruth Draper: Number seven ....

Ruth Draper: Number seven ....

Number seven . . . What's it meant to be, dear? . . . A Study? . . . It doesn't say what of? . . . Well, that's an...

More about this quote

Deborah Kerr: Personally, I think...

Deborah Kerr: Personally, I think...

Personally, I think if a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be...

More about this quote

Anne Baxter: It's best to...

Anne Baxter: It's best to...

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the...

More about this quote

Jacqueline Bisset: Success as a...

Jacqueline Bisset: Success as a...

Success as a woman has changed me. That's what I feel is the first thing. When I feel like a successful woman as a...

More about this quote

Marie Dressler: There is a...

Marie Dressler: There is a...

There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. ...

More about this quote

Eleonora Duse: If the sight...

Eleonora Duse: If the sight...

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move...

More about this quote

Eleonora Duse: Interpretation is the...

Eleonora Duse: Interpretation is the...

Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow -- that great...

More about this quote

Dorothy Gish: I wanted to...

Dorothy Gish: I wanted to...

I wanted to be a tragedienne. I only wanted sad parts. When mother read the press notices when I was on the road,...

More about this quote

Vera-Ellen: Well, you're not...

Vera-Ellen: Well, you're not...

Well, you're not exactly Superman, but you're awfully available.

Source: On...

More about this quote

Jane Seymour: Even though I...

Jane Seymour: Even though I...

Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real...

More about this quote

Hermione Gingold: Really, sex and...

Hermione Gingold: Really, sex and...

Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered -- and I still do -- which is more...

More about this quote

Betty Ford: . . ....

Betty Ford: . . ....

. . . a woman . . . told us she was forever getting herself into trouble. But I just keep coming back, she said. I...

More about this quote

Michelle Obama: It was one...

Michelle Obama: It was one...

It was one thing to get yourself out of a stuck place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the...

More about this quote

Elizabeth II: Like all the...

Elizabeth II: Like all the...

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family...

More about this quote

Elizabeth II: I should like...

Elizabeth II: I should like...

I should like to be a horse.

Source: When asked about her ambitions when a child;...

More about this quote

Page 136 of 329


(C)2026 Quotable Women - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Women
Harrisonburg, VA