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!


Marguerite Duras: For that's what...

Marguerite Duras: For that's what...

For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for...

More about this quote

Maria Weston Chapman: Confusion has seized...

Maria Weston Chapman: Confusion has seized...

Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong,
The women have leaped from their spheres,
And, instead of...

More about this quote

Margaret Fuller: Art can only...

Margaret Fuller: Art can only...

Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior...

More about this quote

Kate Millett: Because of our...

Kate Millett: Because of our...

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly...

More about this quote

Margaret Sanger: No woman can...

Margaret Sanger: No woman can...

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can...

More about this quote

Susan Faludi: [Feminism] asks that...

Susan Faludi: [Feminism] asks that...

[Feminism] asks that women be free to define themselves -- instead of having their identity defined for them, time and...

More about this quote

Helen Rowland: A bride at...

Helen Rowland: A bride at...

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

More about this quote

Peggy Noonan: Speeches are not...

Peggy Noonan: Speeches are not...

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

Source:...

More about this quote

Georgie Anne Geyer: I truly believe...

Georgie Anne Geyer: I truly believe...

I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public...

More about this quote

Marilyn vos Savant: If your head...

Marilyn vos Savant: If your head...

If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide...

More about this quote

Maya Angelou: There's a world...

Maya Angelou: There's a world...

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

More about this quote

Laura Ingalls Wilder: I am beginning...

Laura Ingalls Wilder: I am beginning...

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after...

More about this quote

Kate Chopin: The voice of...

Kate Chopin: The voice of...

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close...

More about this quote

Amelia Barr: . . ....

Amelia Barr: . . ....

. . . solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life;...

More about this quote

Anne Frank: I don't think...

Anne Frank: I don't think...

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

Source: The...

More about this quote

Anne Frank: Whoever is happy...

Anne Frank: Whoever is happy...

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl,...

More about this quote

Harriet Ann Jacobs: There are no...

Harriet Ann Jacobs: There are no...

There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together.

More about this quote

Barbara Smith: A major problem...

Barbara Smith: A major problem...

A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our...

More about this quote

Agnes Repplier: In the stress...

Agnes Repplier: In the stress...

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that...

More about this quote

Freya Stark: The great and...

Freya Stark: The great and...

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and...

More about this quote

Page 175 of 329


(C)2026 Quotable Women - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Women
Harrisonburg, VA