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!


Edna St Vincent Millay: I find it's...

Edna St Vincent Millay: I find it's...

I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.

Source:...

More about this quote

Beth Henley: There are probably...

Beth Henley: There are probably...

There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, Hello, how do you do?...

More about this quote

Aphra Behn: Love ceases to...

Aphra Behn: Love ceases to...

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Source: The Lover's...

More about this quote

Julie Andrews: It is not...

Julie Andrews: It is not...

It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.

More about this quote

Virginia Graham: Be blind. Be...

Virginia Graham: Be blind. Be...

Be blind. Be stupid. Be British. Be careful.

Source: Say Please, ch. 24,...

More about this quote

Camille Paglia: Television is actually...

Camille Paglia: Television is actually...

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human...

More about this quote

Ma Rainey: If you don't...

Ma Rainey: If you don't...

If you don't like my ocean don't fish in my sea
Stay out of my valley and let my mountain...

More about this quote

Judy Collins: I've gone through...

Judy Collins: I've gone through...

I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get...

More about this quote

Agnes George DeMille: Living is a...

Agnes George DeMille: Living is a...

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what's next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a...

More about this quote

Joan Rivers: People say that...

Joan Rivers: People say that...

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key...

More about this quote

Phyllis Diller: I buried a...

Phyllis Diller: I buried a...

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.

Source: In Woman's Almanac,...

More about this quote

Alice Childress: . . ....

Alice Childress: . . ....

. . . the good old days. The only good days are ahead.

Source: Alice Childress, in...

More about this quote

Marian Anderson: You lose a...

Marian Anderson: You lose a...

You lose a lot of time hating people.

Source: In The New York Times, 18 Apr...

More about this quote

Amy Lowell: Time! Joyless emblem...

Amy Lowell: Time! Joyless emblem...

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed
Of millions, robber of the best
Which earth can give. ....

More about this quote

Lucille Clifton: . . ....

Lucille Clifton: . . ....

. . . even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties, in my definitions, I did...

More about this quote

Rita Dove: Under adversity, under...

Rita Dove: Under adversity, under...

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In colder to convey things...

More about this quote

Muriel Rukeyser: However confused the...

Muriel Rukeyser: However confused the...

However confused the scene of our life appears,
however torn we may be who now do face that scene,
it can be...

More about this quote

Letitia Landon: Were it not...

Letitia Landon: Were it not...

Were it not better to forget
Than to remember and regret?


Source: From an...

More about this quote

Maxine Kumin: To write about...

Maxine Kumin: To write about...

To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of...

More about this quote

Anne Spencer: I proudly love...

Anne Spencer: I proudly love...

I proudly love being a Negro woman -- it's so involved and interesting.

Source:...

More about this quote

Page 196 of 329


(C)2026 Quotable Women - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Women
Harrisonburg, VA