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!


Lena Horne: Don't be afraid...

Lena Horne: Don't be afraid...

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just...

More about this quote

Jinger Heath: Look for opportunity....

Jinger Heath: Look for opportunity....

Look for opportunity. You can't wait for it to knock on the door. . . . you might not be...

More about this quote

Mary Kay Ash: For every failure,...

Mary Kay Ash: For every failure,...

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock,...

More about this quote

Mary Kay Ash: So many women...

Mary Kay Ash: So many women...

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the...

More about this quote

Paula Nelson: Going into business...

Paula Nelson: Going into business...

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old...

More about this quote

Judith Jamison: We can go...

Judith Jamison: We can go...

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to...

More about this quote

Nellie Melba: The first rule...

Nellie Melba: The first rule...

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

More about this quote

Ingrid Bergman: Happiness is good...

Ingrid Bergman: Happiness is good...

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by Abby...

More about this quote

Betty Grable: I'm a song...

Betty Grable: I'm a song...

I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.

More about this quote

Erica Jong: No one ever...

Erica Jong: No one ever...

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the...

More about this quote

Jane Harrison: Old age, believe...

Jane Harrison: Old age, believe...

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you...

More about this quote

bell hooks: Being oppressed means...

bell hooks: Being oppressed means...

Being oppressed means the absence of choices.

Source: Feminist Theory, ch.1,...

More about this quote

Mary Ritter Beard: [T]hose who sit...

Mary Ritter Beard: [T]hose who sit...

[T]hose who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world...

More about this quote

Dinah Mulock Craik: It seems as...

Dinah Mulock Craik: It seems as...

It seems as if she had given these treasures and left him alone -- to use them, or lose them, apply them, or misapply...

More about this quote

Colette: Look for a...

Colette: Look for a...

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.

More about this quote

Abigail Adams: Do not put...

Abigail Adams: Do not put...

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. [We...

More about this quote

Ann Richards: I have very...

Ann Richards: I have very...

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look...

More about this quote

Queen Victoria: We are not...

Queen Victoria: We are not...

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

Source:...

More about this quote

Marie Antoinette: There is nothing...

Marie Antoinette: There is nothing...

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Source: In The Speaker's...

More about this quote

Christina of Sweden: Dignity is like...

Christina of Sweden: Dignity is like...

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.

Source:...

More about this quote

Page 59 of 329


(C)2026 Quotable Women - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Women
Harrisonburg, VA