Memorable Quotations: American Women Writers of the Past

This impressive collection of quotations is a treasure of discerning wisdom, lovely thoughts, and perceptive wit gleaned from the writing of America's best women writers of the past: Jane Ace, Abigail Smith Adams, Jane Laura Addams, Zoe Akins, Louisa May Alcott, Margaret Anderson, Katharine Susan Anthony, Susan B. Anthony, Mary Antin, Minna Thomas Antrim, Hannah Arendt, Gertrude Franklin Atherton, Mary Hunter Austin, Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon, Dorothy Dodds Baker, Faith Baldwin, Bettina Ballard, Margaret Culkin Banning, Djuna Barnes, Margaret Ayer Barnes, Amelia Barr, Clara Barton, Vicki Baum, Mary Ritter Beard, Catharine Esther Beecher, Helen Olcott Bell, Ruth Fulton Benedict, Mary McLeod Bethune, Elizabeth Bishop, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Elizabeth Blackwell, Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Louise Bogan, Erma Bombeck, Margaret Bourke-White, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Anna C. Brackett, Mary Gardiner Brainard, Fawn M. Brodie, Alice Williams Brotherton, Olympia Brown, Pearl S. Buck, Frances Eliza Burnett, Amelia Josephine Burr, Taylor Caldwell, Rachel Carson, Willa Cather, Carrie Chapman Catt, Maria Weston Chapman, Mary Catherwood, Lydia M. Child, Kate Chopin, Anna Julia Cooper, Dorothy Day, Agnes De Mille, Babette Deutsch, Helene Deutsch, Emily Dickinson, Dorothy Dix, Mary Mapes Dodge, Elizabeth Drew, Isadora Duncan, Amelia Earhart, Crystal Eastman, Mary Baker Eddy, Augusta Jane Evans, Eliza Farnham, Edna Ferber, Fanny Fern, M. F. K. Fisher, Minnie Fiske, Zelda Fitzgerald, Doris Fleeson, Margaret Fuller, Zona Gale, Martha Gellhorn, Katherine Gerould, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Laura Gilpin, Mary Barnett Gilson, Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell, Emma Goldman, Ruth Gordon, Margaret Collier Graham, Angelina Grimke, Edith Hamilton, Gail Hamilton, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Corra May Harris, Helen Hathaway, Jane Heap, Lillian Hellman, Beatrice Hinkle, Billie Holiday, Karen Horney, Zora Neale Hurston, Helen Hunt Jackson, Mahalia Jackson, Shirley Jackson, Alice James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mother Jones, Vivien Kellems, Helen Keller, Sophie Kerr, Francis Parkinson Keyes, Dorothy Kilgallen, Maggie Kuhn, Suzanne Lafollette, Rose Wilder Lane, Suzanne K. Langer, Anita Loos, Audre Lorde, Amy Lawrence Lowell, Clare Boothe Luce, Margaret S. Mahler, Elisabeth Marbury, Frances Marion, Elsa Maxwell, Mary McCarthy, Carson McCullers, Phyllis McGinley, Maria McIntosh, Margaret Mead, Agnes Meyer, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Alice Duer Miller, Margaret Mitchell, Maria Mitchell, Anne Shannon Monroe, Marianne Moore, Louise Moulton, Ethel Watts Mumford, Anais Nin, Kathleen Norris, Flannery O'Connor, Gretta Brooker Palmer, Dorothy Parker, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Anne Porter, Emily Post, Margaret Preston, Emily James Putnam, Ayn Rand, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Agnes Repplier, Alice Caldwell Rice, Laura Riding, Constance Roarke, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, Harriet Robinson, Ida P. Rolf, Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Rowland, Helena Rubinstein, Muriel Rukeyser, Margaret Sanger, Margaret E. Sangster, May Sarton, Evelyn Scott, Janet Scudder, Anne Sexton, Anna Howard Shaw, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Anne Smedley, Betty Smith, Lillian Smith, Anna Garlin Spencer, Leonora Speyer, Adela Rogers St. Johns, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Gertrude Stein, Edith Mendel Stern, Elizabeth Stoddard, Lucy Stone, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Anne Sullivan, Jane Grey Swisshelm, Ida Tarbell, Sara Teasdale, Clara Thompson, Dorothy Thompson, Alice B. Toklas, Barbara Tuchman, Jane Colman Turell, Brenda Ueland, Amy Vanderbilt, Katharine Walker, Mrs. H. O. Ward, Carolyn Wells, Ida B. Wells, Jessamyn West, Mae West, Edith Wharton, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Mary Day Winn, Thyra Samter Winslow, and Maud Younger.