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Firoozeh Dumas
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“Marriage, in my culture, has nothing to do with romance. It's a matter of logic. If Mr. and Mrs. Ahmadi like Mr. and Mrs. Nejari, then their children should get married. On the other hand, if the parents don't like each other, but the children do, well, this is where sad poetry comes from.”
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“My father's motto has always been 'Room in the heart, room in the house.' As charming as this sounds, it translates into a long line for the bathroom and extra loads of laundry for my mother.”
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“Everyone except gamblers knows that gambling never pays. ... Losing, like winning, only increased his determination to play.”
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“Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.”
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“In America, Christmas is the king of all holidays. To be left out of Christmas is the ultimate minority experience.”
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“... François selected ... a combination of lamb, beef, and chicken kebob on an enormous mound of rice. His order arrived, looking as though someone had just grilled an entire petting zoo.”
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“My parents are highly evolved worriers. ... If worrying were an Olympic sport, my parents' faces would have graced the Wheaties box a long time ago.”
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“... our landlord's idea of maintenance was cashing the rent checks.”
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“Ever since we had arrived in the United States, my classmates kept asking me about magic carpets. They don't exist, I always said. I was wrong. Magic carpets do exist. But they are called library cards.”
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“Older boys often asked me to teach them 'some bad words in your language.' At first I politely refused. My refusal merely increased their determination, so I solved the problem by teaching them phrases like 'man kharam' which means 'I'm an idiot.' I told them that what I was teaching them was so nasty that they would have to promise never to repeat it to anyone. They would then spend all of recess running around yelling 'I'm an idiot! I'm an idiot!.' I never told them the truth. I figured someday, somebody would.”
Firoozeh Dumas, Iranian-born U.S. writer
(1965)