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!


Jeanne Moreau: Some people are...

Jeanne Moreau: Some people are...

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

Source: In...

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

Julia Roberts: They say I...

Julia Roberts: They say I...

They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just...

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Children use the...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Children use the...

Children use the fist
Until they are of the age to use the brain.


Source: In...

More about this quote

Nelly Sachs: Here and there...

Nelly Sachs: Here and there...

Here and there the lantern of compassion
can be shown to the fish,
where the fishhook is swallowed
or...

More about this quote

Nelly Sachs: When sleep leaves...

Nelly Sachs: When sleep leaves...

When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its...

More about this quote

Ntozake Shange: Where there is...

Ntozake Shange: Where there is...

Where there is woman there is magic.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

More about this quote

Louise Erdrich: I think a...

Louise Erdrich: I think a...

I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to draw these scraps of experience or conversation or memory to it....

More about this quote

Beth Henley: He started hating...

Beth Henley: He started hating...

He started hating me, cause I couldn't laugh at his jokes. I just started finding it impossible to laugh at his jokes...

More about this quote

Vita Sackville-West: Ambition, old as...

Vita Sackville-West: Ambition, old as...

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

Source: 'No...

More about this quote

Gwendolyn Brooks: Reading is important...

Gwendolyn Brooks: Reading is important...

Reading is important -- read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

Source:...

More about this quote

Gwendolyn Brooks: As you get...

Gwendolyn Brooks: As you get...

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet...

More about this quote

Janet Erskine Stuart: All sorts of...

Janet Erskine Stuart: All sorts of...

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

Source:...

More about this quote

May Swenson: Human double-barreled eyes,<br>in...

May Swenson: Human double-barreled eyes,
in...

Human double-barreled eyes,
in their narrow blind,
hope to shoot and hit
-- if they can find it
-- the...

More about this quote

Agnes George DeMille: When you perform...

Agnes George DeMille: When you perform...

When you perform . . . you are out of yourself larger and more potent, more beautiful. You are for minutes heroic....

More about this quote

Alice Childress: . . ....

Alice Childress: . . ....

. . . it's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.

Source: In And...

More about this quote

Tina Turner: Sometimes you've got...

Tina Turner: Sometimes you've got...

Sometimes you've got to let everything go -- purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is...

More about this quote

Sophie Tucker: From birth to...

Sophie Tucker: From birth to...

From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good personality. From...

More about this quote

Miriam Makeba: People in the...

Miriam Makeba: People in the...

People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are...

More about this quote

Page 138 of 329


(C)2026 Quotable Women - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Women
Harrisonburg, VA