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.
Search by Topic:
Find quotations by TOPIC (coffee, love, dogs)
or search alphabetically below.
Search by Last Name:
Search by Keyword:
Mary Jo Putney
-
“... what one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.”
-
“Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.”
-
“Friendship was as much a matter of knowing when not to speak as when one should.”
-
“Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.”
-
“Death and guilt were natural partners.”
-
“I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.”
-
“Humor was one of the most seductive things about a man.”
-
“Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.”
-
“[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale — lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.”
-
“Competence is a great creator of confidence.”
-
“I'm not as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was.”
-
“... we all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age.”
-
“Enigmatic — the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.”
-
“Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.”