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!


Dorothy Parker: A list of...

Dorothy Parker: A list of...

A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is...

More about this quote

Helen Keller: It's wonderful to...

Helen Keller: It's wonderful to...

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no...

More about this quote

Helen Keller: Unless we form...

Helen Keller: Unless we form...

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its...

More about this quote

Helen Keller: [Death] is no...

Helen Keller: [Death] is no...

[Death] is no more than passing from one room to another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that...

More about this quote

Dorothy Parker: As only New...

Dorothy Parker: As only New...

As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the...

More about this quote

Dorothy Parker: My verses, I...

Dorothy Parker: My verses, I...

My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own...

More about this quote

Dorothy Parker: If all the...

Dorothy Parker: If all the...

If all the girls attending it were laid end to end - I wouldn't be at all surprised.

More about this quote

Dorothy Parker: His ignorance was...

Dorothy Parker: His ignorance was...

His ignorance was an Empire State Building of ignorance. You had to admire it for its...

More about this quote

Susan Sontag: It is not...

Susan Sontag: It is not...

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less interesting, less...

More about this quote

Susan Sontag: The camera makes...

Susan Sontag: The camera makes...

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's...

More about this quote

Susan Sontag: Volume depends precisely...

Susan Sontag: Volume depends precisely...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year,...

More about this quote

Peace Pilgrim: Praying without ceasing...

Peace Pilgrim: Praying without ceasing...

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness...

More about this quote

Andrea Dworkin: The fact that...

Andrea Dworkin: The fact that...

The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to...

More about this quote

Helen Rowland: Marriage is a...

Helen Rowland: Marriage is a...

Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.

Source: In...

More about this quote

Helen Rowland: Don't waste time...

Helen Rowland: Don't waste time...

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new...

More about this quote

Helen Rowland: When a girl...

Helen Rowland: When a girl...

When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.

More about this quote

Helen Rowland: There's so much...

Helen Rowland: There's so much...

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one...

More about this quote

Virgilia Peterson: Words have their...

Virgilia Peterson: Words have their...

Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have...

More about this quote

Emily Dickinson: Success is counted...

Emily Dickinson: Success is counted...

Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest...

More about this quote

Emily Dickinson: Our journey had...

Emily Dickinson: Our journey had...

Our journey had advanced;
Our feet were almost come
To that odd fork in Being's road,
Eternity by...

More about this quote

Page 297 of 329


(C)2025 Quotable Women - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Women
Harrisonburg, VA