Welcome to the web’s most comprehensive site of quotations by women. 43,939 quotations are searchable by topic, by author's name, or by keyword. Many of them appear in no other collection. And new ones are added continually.

See All TOPICS Available:
See All AUTHORS Available:

Search by Topic:

  • topic cats
  • topic books
  • topic moon

Find quotations by TOPIC (coffee, love, dogs)
or search alphabetically below.

Search by Last Name:

  • Quotes by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Quotes by Louisa May Alcott
  • Quotes by Chingling Soong

Find quotations by the AUTHOR´S LAST NAME
or alphabetically below.

Search by Keyword:

  • keyword fishing
  • keyword twilight
  • keyword Australie

Nancy Berliner

  • I once read a survey that said the moment in the daily routine that people look forward to most is opening the mail.

    • Nancy Berliner,
    • "A Brief and True Relation of the Chinese Postal Service," in Bostonia ()
  • ... the thrill of receiving a letter must partially stem from the letter being physical evidence of the fact that even when we are not in the presence of a friend, we still exist in their minds.

    • Nancy Berliner,
    • "A Brief and True Relation of the Chinese Postal Service," in Bostonia ()

Nancy Berliner, U.S. writer