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!


Marion Woodman: Without an understanding...

Marion Woodman: Without an understanding...

Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and...

More about this quote

Amelia Barr: Old age is...

Amelia Barr: Old age is...

Old age is the verdict of life.

Source: All the Days of My Life, ch. 26,...

More about this quote

Barbara Ehrenreich: In economics, we...

Barbara Ehrenreich: In economics, we...

In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of...

More about this quote

Peggy Noonan: Part of courage...

Peggy Noonan: Part of courage...

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

More about this quote

Margaret Sanger: [The woman's] mission...

Margaret Sanger: [The woman's] mission...

[The woman's] mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a...

More about this quote

Suzanne Curchod Necker: Worship your heroes...

Suzanne Curchod Necker: Worship your heroes...

Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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

Shirley Conran: You're never too...

Shirley Conran: You're never too...

You're never too old to grow up.

Source: Savages.
-- Shirley Conran, (Sep 21...

More about this quote

Julia Ward Howe: Disarm, disarm. The...

Julia Ward Howe: Disarm, disarm. The...

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence...

More about this quote

Lucy Stone: To make the...

Lucy Stone: To make the...

To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of...

More about this quote

Lucy Stone: The politician is...

Lucy Stone: The politician is...

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . ....

More about this quote

Natalie Clifford Barney: It is time...

Natalie Clifford Barney: It is time...

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

Source: In Adam, no. 299, On Writing and...

More about this quote

Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Source: In The Ultimate...

More about this quote

Erica Jong: I have accepted...

Erica Jong: I have accepted...

I have accepted fear as a part of life -- specifically the fear of change. . . . I have gone ahead despite the...

More about this quote

Dorothy Gilman: If something anticipated...

Dorothy Gilman: If something anticipated...

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel -- nothing at...

More about this quote

Charlotte Forten Grimke: Provoking, isn't it?...

Charlotte Forten Grimke: Provoking, isn't it?...

Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.

More about this quote

Jane Rule: I believe only...

Jane Rule: I believe only...

I believe only in art and failure.

Source: This is Not for You, 1970.
-- Jane...

More about this quote

Toni Morrison: And like any...

Toni Morrison: And like any...

And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

Source: Sula,...

More about this quote

Anna Sewell: There is no...

Anna Sewell: There is no...

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not...

More about this quote

Daphne DuMaurier: People who travel...

Daphne DuMaurier: People who travel...

People who travel are always fugitives.

Source: Frenchman's Creek.
-- Daphne...

More about this quote

Page 136 of 329


(C)2026 Quotable Women - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Women
Harrisonburg, VA