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!


George Eliot: And when a...

George Eliot: And when a...

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be...

More about this quote

Enid Bagnold: A father is...

Enid Bagnold: A father is...

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back...

More about this quote

Anais Nin: There are very...

Anais Nin: There are very...

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them...

More about this quote

Ayn Rand: He liked to...

Ayn Rand: He liked to...

He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality,...

More about this quote

Gertrude Stein: Remarks are not...

Gertrude Stein: Remarks are not...

Remarks are not literature.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

More about this quote

Margery Allingham: Mourning is not...

Margery Allingham: Mourning is not...

Mourning is not forgetting. . . . It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and...

More about this quote

Lisa Alther: That's the risk...

Lisa Alther: That's the risk...

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other...

More about this quote

Willa Cather: There are some...

Willa Cather: There are some...

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Source: In Words...

More about this quote

Willa Cather: Religion and art...

Willa Cather: Religion and art...

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are...

More about this quote

Ursula Le Guin: It is good...

Ursula Le Guin: It is good...

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the...

More about this quote

Anne Rice: To really ask...

Anne Rice: To really ask...

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the...

More about this quote

Jean Ingelow: I have lived...

Jean Ingelow: I have lived...

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Source: From...

More about this quote

Margaret Truman: He loved politicians...

Margaret Truman: He loved politicians...

He loved politicians -- even Republicans.

Source: To joint session of Congress on...

More about this quote

Madeleine L'Engle: Because I am...

Madeleine L'Engle: Because I am...

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with...

More about this quote

George Eliot: It is only...

George Eliot: It is only...

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have...

More about this quote

Annie Elizabeth Delany: Once in a...

Annie Elizabeth Delany: Once in a...

Once in a while, God sends a good white person my way, even to this day. I think it's God's way of keeping me from...

More about this quote

Clara Barton: This conflict is...

Clara Barton: This conflict is...

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young -- young enough to go to the front. If...

More about this quote

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: When I felt...

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: When I felt...

When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or...

More about this quote

Emily James Putnam: In contemporary society...

Emily James Putnam: In contemporary society...

In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her...

More about this quote

Florence King: We worship education...

Florence King: We worship education...

We worship education but hate learning.

Source:
-- Florence King, (Jan 5...

More about this quote

Page 232 of 329


(C)2026 Quotable Women - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Women
Harrisonburg, VA