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!


Marianne Williamson: Birth is violent,...

Marianne Williamson: Birth is violent,...

Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

More about this quote

Margaret Chase Smith: Moral cowardice that...

Margaret Chase Smith: Moral cowardice that...

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right...

More about this quote

Geraldine Ferraro: I should have...

Geraldine Ferraro: I should have...

I should have had a circuitous answer that was a non-answer.

Source: On initial...

More about this quote

Etty Hillesum: I would ....

Etty Hillesum: I would ....

I would . . . be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual...

More about this quote

Barbara De Angelis: Men aren't the...

Barbara De Angelis: Men aren't the...

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands...

More about this quote

Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: Hope says to...

Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: Hope says to...

Hope says to us constantly, Go on, go on, and leads us to the grave.

Source: In...

More about this quote

Elizabeth Blackwell: It is well...

Elizabeth Blackwell: It is well...

It is well worth the efforts of a life-time to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all...

More about this quote

Joanna Field: I came...

Joanna Field: I came...

I came to the conclusion then that continual mindfulness. . . must mean, not a sergeantmajor-like drilling of...

More about this quote

Charlotte Forten Grimke: Let me not...

Charlotte Forten Grimke: Let me not...

Let me not forget again that I came not here for friendly sympathy or for anything else but to work, and to work hard....

More about this quote

Maria Montessori: Never help a...

Maria Montessori: Never help a...

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Source: In The...

More about this quote

Maria Montessori: If we can,...

Maria Montessori: If we can,...

If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in...

More about this quote

Mary Ritter Beard: The volumes which...

Mary Ritter Beard: The volumes which...

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men . . ....

More about this quote

Beatrice Potter Webb: The Inevitability of...

Beatrice Potter Webb: The Inevitability of...

The Inevitability of Gradualness.

Source: Presidential Address, British Labour...

More about this quote

Mary Todd Lincoln: [O]thers live on...

Mary Todd Lincoln: [O]thers live on...

[O]thers live on in a careless and lukewarm state -- not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: Into each life, some...

More about this quote

Gracie Allen: They laughed at...

Gracie Allen: They laughed at...

They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it.

Source: In The...

More about this quote

Aimee Semple Mcpherson: I have never...

Aimee Semple Mcpherson: I have never...

I have never been brought up a Catholic - I mean, a Roman Catholic - we're all Catholics, aren't we? We're Protestant...

More about this quote

Ella Baker: The major job...

Ella Baker: The major job...

The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use, and it...

More about this quote

Betty Friedan: Aging is not...

Betty Friedan: Aging is not...

Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Source: In...

More about this quote

Barbara Deming: To resort to...

Barbara Deming: To resort to...

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action...

More about this quote

Jane Addams: Old-fashioned ways which...

Jane Addams: Old-fashioned ways which...

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always...

More about this quote

Page 16 of 329


(C)2025 Quotable Women - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Women
Harrisonburg, VA