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!


Maya Angelou: We may encounter...

Maya Angelou: We may encounter...

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Source: In The Ultimate...

More about this quote

Susan Sontag: Although none of...

Susan Sontag: Although none of...

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating...

More about this quote

Helen Rowland: The tenderest spot...

Helen Rowland: The tenderest spot...

The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.

More about this quote

Dorothy Parker: I'd like to...

Dorothy Parker: I'd like to...

I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if...

More about this quote

Dorothy Parker: The only 'ism'...

Dorothy Parker: The only 'ism'...

The only 'ism' Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

More about this quote

Dorothy Parker: Money cannot buy...

Dorothy Parker: Money cannot buy...

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

Source:...

More about this quote

Dorothy Parker: You can lead...

Dorothy Parker: You can lead...

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

Source: Speech to...

More about this quote

George Eliot: Ignorance. . ....

George Eliot: Ignorance. . ....

Ignorance. . . is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with...

More about this quote

Jane Austen: It is always...

Jane Austen: It is always...

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of...

More about this quote

Helen Hunt Jackson: Oh, write of...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Oh, write of...

Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains,
But Emigrated to another star!


More about this quote

Rita Mae Brown: Language is the...

Rita Mae Brown: Language is the...

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are...

More about this quote

Gertrude Stein: Money is always...

Gertrude Stein: Money is always...

Money is always there, but the pockets change.

Source: The Practical Cogitator,...

More about this quote

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Women are the...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Women are the...

Women are the real architects of society.

Source: In Atlantic Monthly, 1864.
--...

More about this quote

Madeleine L'Engle: We can't take...

Madeleine L'Engle: We can't take...

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

Source:...

More about this quote

Emily Dickinson: The Truth must...

Emily Dickinson: The Truth must...

The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind.


Source: 1868; The Poems...

More about this quote

Emily Dickinson: Unto a broken...

Emily Dickinson: Unto a broken...

Unto a broken heart
No other one may go
Without the high prerogative
Itself hath suffered...

More about this quote

Emily Dickinson: If I read...

Emily Dickinson: If I read...

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is...

More about this quote

Emily Dickinson: We must be...

Emily Dickinson: We must be...

We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.

Source: Letter, 1874; in...

More about this quote

Agnes George DeMille: Theater people are...

Agnes George DeMille: Theater people are...

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America...

More about this quote

Oprah Winfrey: I don't think...

Oprah Winfrey: I don't think...

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early...

More about this quote

Page 320 of 329


(C)2026 Quotable Women - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Women
Harrisonburg, VA