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!


Clara Barton: It is wise...

Clara Barton: It is wise...

It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise...

More about this quote

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: At first he...

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: At first he...

At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me;...

More about this quote

Mary Lyon: There is nothing...

Mary Lyon: There is nothing...

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do...

More about this quote

Emily James Putnam: Until changing economic...

Emily James Putnam: Until changing economic...

Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed...

More about this quote

Catharine Esther Beecher: To open avenues...

Catharine Esther Beecher: To open avenues...

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family...

More about this quote

Anna Julia Cooper: Teach [our girls]...

Anna Julia Cooper: Teach [our girls]...

Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and...

More about this quote

Maria Montessori: And so we...

Maria Montessori: And so we...

And so we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which...

More about this quote

Shirley Chisholm: Tremendous amounts of...

Shirley Chisholm: Tremendous amounts of...

Tremendous amounts of talent are being lost to our society just because that talent wears a...

More about this quote

Marguerite de Valois: The more hidden...

Marguerite de Valois: The more hidden...

The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.

Source: Memoirs.
--...

More about this quote

Elizabeth I: I thank God...

Elizabeth I: I thank God...

I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live...

More about this quote

Minnie Maddern Fiske: You must not...

Minnie Maddern Fiske: You must not...

You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded

More about this quote

Catherine the Great: I may be...

Catherine the Great: I may be...

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at...

More about this quote

Sydney Biddle Barrows: I was naughty....

Sydney Biddle Barrows: I was naughty....

I was naughty. I wasn't bad. Bad is hurting people, doing evil. Naughty is not hurting anyone. Naughty is being...

More about this quote

Emily Post: Manners are a...

Emily Post: Manners are a...

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no...

More about this quote

Amy Vanderbilt: [I am] a...

Amy Vanderbilt: [I am] a...

[I am] a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what...

More about this quote

Isadora Duncan: I had learned...

Isadora Duncan: I had learned...

I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same...

More about this quote

Sarah Caldwell: Success is important...

Sarah Caldwell: Success is important...

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to...

More about this quote

Maria Callas: When music fails...

Maria Callas: When music fails...

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it had missed the...

More about this quote

Leontyne Price: You should always...

Leontyne Price: You should always...

You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave...

More about this quote

May Sarton: Anyone who is...

May Sarton: Anyone who is...

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at 15 to write several novels.

More about this quote

Page 42 of 329


(C)2026 Quotable Women - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Women
Harrisonburg, VA