Memorable Quotations: Famous Women of the Past

This collection of remarkable quotations is a gem of discerning wisdom, lovely thoughts, and astute wit gleaned from the words of famous women of the past: Bella Abzug, Jane Ace, Abigail Smith Adams, Jane Laura Addams, Charlotte Elizabeth Aisse, Zoe Akins, Louisa May Alcott, Shana Alexander, Margery Allingham, Margaret Anderson, Jane Anger, Anne of Austria, Katharine Susan Anthony, Susan B. Anthony, Mary Antin, Minna Thomas Antrim, Diane Arbus, Hannah Arendt, Gertrude Franklin Atherton, Jane Austen, Mary Hunter Austin, Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon, Enid Bagnold, Dorothy Dodds Baker, Faith Baldwin, Bettina Ballard, Tallulah Bankhead, Margaret Culkin Banning, Margaret Fairless Barber, Djuna Barnes, Margaret Ayer Barnes, Natalie Clifford Barney, Amelia Barr, Clara Barton, Vicki Baum, Mary Ritter Beard, Simone de Beauvoir, Catharine Esther Beecher, Aphra Behn, Helen Olcott Bell, Ruth Fulton Benedict, Stella Benson, Sarah Bernhardt, Mary McLeod Bethune, Elizabeth Bishop, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Elizabeth Blackwell, Marguerite Blessington, Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Louise Bogan, Erma Bombeck, Violet Bonham-Carter (Lady Asquith), Margaret Bourke-White, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Elizabeth Bowen, Anna C. Brackett, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mary Gardiner Brainard, Fanny Brice, Vera Brittain, Fawn M. Brodie, Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Alice Williams Brotherton, Olympia Brown, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Pearl S. Buck, Frances Eliza Burnett, Fanny Burney, Amelia Josephine Burr, Taylor Caldwell, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Emily Carr, Rachel Carson, Angela Carter, Barbara Cartland, Willa Cather, Catherine II of Russia, Mary Catherwood, Susannah Centlivre, Coco Chanel, Carrie Chapman Catt, Maria Weston Chapman, Mary Bokin Chestnut, Lydia M. Child, Kate Chopin, Agatha Christie, Colette, Eliza Cook, Anna Julia Cooper, Lady Diana Cooper, Bette Davis, Dorothy Day, Agnes De Mille, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Babette Deutsch, Helene Deutsch, Emily Dickinson, Marlene Dietrich, Isak Dinesen, Dorothy Dix, Mary Mapes Dodge, Rheta Childe Dorr, Marie Dressler, Elizabeth Drew, Isadora Duncan, Marguerite Duras, Amelia Earhart, Crystal Eastman, Mary Baker Eddy, Maria Edgeworth, George Eliot, Elizabeth I, Sarah Ellis, Augusta Jane Evans, Lady Ann Fanshawe, Eliza Farnham, Edna Ferber, Fanny Fern, M. F. K. Fisher, Minnie Fiske, Zelda Fitzgerald, Doris Fleeson, Esther Forbes, Janet Frame, Anne Frank, Betty Friedan, Margaret Fuller, Zona Gale, Indira Gandhi, Elizabeth Gaskell, Martha Gellhorn, Katherine Gerould, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Laura Gilpin, Mary Barnett Gilson, Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell, Pamela Glenconner, Emma Goldman, Ruth Gordon, Margaret Collier Graham, Martha Graham, Clarissa Graves, Lady Gregory, Angelina Grimke, Edith Hamilton, Gail Hamilton, Elizabeth Hardwick, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Corra May Harris, Jane Harrison, Helen Hathaway, Jane Heap, Lillian Hellman, Heloise, Katharine Hepburn, Beatrice Hinkle, Billie Holiday, Karen Horney, Zora Neale Hurston, Dolores Ibarruri, Helen Hunt Jackson, Mahalia Jackson, Shirley Jackson, Jane Jacobs, Alice James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Mother Jones, June Jordan, Vivien Kellems, Helen Keller, Petra Kelly, Sophie Kerr, Francis Parkinson Keyes, Dorothy Kilgallen, Kathe Kollwitz, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Maggie Kuhn, Louise Labe, Suzanne Lafollette, Ann Landers, Rose Wilder Lane, Suzanne K. Langer, Emily Lawless, Caroline Lejeune, Anita Loos, Audre Lorde, Amy Lawrence Lowell, Clare Boothe Luce, Rosa Luxemburg, Margaret S. Mahler, Bathsua Makin, Katherine Mansfield, Elisabeth Marbury, Marguerite of Navarre, Marguerite of Valois, Marie de France, Harriet Martineau, Elsa Maxwell, Mary McCarthy, Carson McCullers, Phyllis McGinley, Maria McIntosh, Margaret Mead, Golda Meir, Agnes Meyer, Alice Meynell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Alice Duer Miller, Margaret Mitchell, Maria Mitchell, Anne Shannon Monroe, Marilyn Monroe, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Maria Montessori, and many more.