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Beautifully Said: Quotes by Remarkable Women and Girls Designed to Make You Think (Volume 1)
Looking for just the right words to inspire your daughter, sister, mother, teammate or friend? Beautifully Said is a personal inspiration gallery filled with 110 quotes...and, the stories behind the wise words. Within the 21 themed chapters are women and girls who believe, build, discover, explore, heal, invent, laugh and lead. It's a collection that's designed to be shared. So passions get sparked and role models emerge.
Quotabelle's first book is a serendipitous result of the startup's Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. This female-powered company creates products that add missing voices back into history and ensure today's thinkers and doers aren't overlooked going forward.
You'll love discovering quotes by unforgettable women from bygone eras including Eleanor Roosevelt, Ella Fitzgerald, Harriet Tubman and Audrey Hepburn as well as contemporary sheroes like Serena Williams, Amy Poehler and Malala Yousafzai. Among the noteworthy up-and-comers...an Everest-scaling mountaineer, a space archaeologist and a serial entrepreneur.
Quotabelle's first book is a serendipitous result of the startup's Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. This female-powered company creates products that add missing voices back into history and ensure today's thinkers and doers aren't overlooked going forward.
You'll love discovering quotes by unforgettable women from bygone eras including Eleanor Roosevelt, Ella Fitzgerald, Harriet Tubman and Audrey Hepburn as well as contemporary sheroes like Serena Williams, Amy Poehler and Malala Yousafzai. Among the noteworthy up-and-comers...an Everest-scaling mountaineer, a space archaeologist and a serial entrepreneur.
272 pages, Hardcover
Published April 15, 2017
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July 29, 2017
From Isabel Allende to Maya Angelou, Lucille Ball to Nellie Bly, Joyce Brothers to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Coco Chanel to Julia Child, Hillary Rodham Clinton to Emily Dickinson, Amelia Earhart to Ella Fitzgerald, Melinda Gates to Temple Grandin, Audrey Hepburn to Zora Neale Hurston, Helen Keller to Billie Jean King, Michelle Obama to Georgia O’Keefe, Rosa Parks to Emily Post, Eleanor Roosevelt to J.K. Rowling, Mary Shelly to Gloria Steinham, Harriet Tubman to Mae West, Laura Ingalls Wilder to Oprah Winfrey… these are some of the women quoted.
This is a book about the “Power of a Few Short Words,” and although they may not be “our own” words, they sometimes fill that spot where either we have no words or we need others to put into words that which our minds have yet to fully grasped. Sometimes, some of these precede our early years, and they seem synonymous with how we feel, so ingrained are they in our hearts and mind.
This would make a lovely gift for anyone, really, or a lovely guest room addition, but I had in mind someone young enough that the majority of these quotes would likely be seen for the first time.
Each quote is on its own page, the colour scheme is very fresh and light, the first page a pale pink with a design silver dots forming a wave-like pattern. Something I could easily see used in a classroom or a room for a pre-teen or young teen. None are frilly or overly feminine, and while all of the quoteurs are women, few of the quotes are gender specific, although this book is targeted for a female audience. There are 21 different categories for the quotes such as She Believe, She Builds, She Champions, She Coaches, She Competes… and so on.
“Beautifully Said: Quotes by remarkable women and girls, designed to make you think” is what the title is on my copy, Quotabelle’s first book, which owes it’s beginnings to a crowdfunding campaign, and the women who run this female-powered company.
Published: 15 April 2017
Many thanks for the ARC provided by Rock Point / Quarto Publishing Group
September 24, 2017
Some people say that you can be inspired by everyone, that's true, but at the end of the day, you will be more exposed to the words of the world's greatest men in history than to the words of expectacular women. So this book compiles what these women say, with the plus that you can learn about these girls: where they came from and what they did/do. It isn't a deep biography, but it has enough information to arouse my interest.
Yes, I accept that I didn't know most of them, so I wrote their names, kept their appointments and reminded myself that if I try hard, I can achieve what I want (I wish I had known that when I was 5 and I cried several days because my mother told me that I couldn't study at Harvard).
Probably, a lot of people think that isn't important to know greatest stories about female but it is, especially when you live in a little town where everybody expect that you get marry or look at you like a strange girl because you love learn about something in especial or about everything. Is necessary to let us know that we can do more than that, and achieve goals that look impossible but they aren't, just are really hard, but thats their value. So yeah, i think this is a great book to give as a present, to another women or to yourself, to remind you that a problem will pass and sucess is possible.
A digital copy of this book was provided by NetGalley
Yes, I accept that I didn't know most of them, so I wrote their names, kept their appointments and reminded myself that if I try hard, I can achieve what I want (I wish I had known that when I was 5 and I cried several days because my mother told me that I couldn't study at Harvard).
Probably, a lot of people think that isn't important to know greatest stories about female but it is, especially when you live in a little town where everybody expect that you get marry or look at you like a strange girl because you love learn about something in especial or about everything. Is necessary to let us know that we can do more than that, and achieve goals that look impossible but they aren't, just are really hard, but thats their value. So yeah, i think this is a great book to give as a present, to another women or to yourself, to remind you that a problem will pass and sucess is possible.
A digital copy of this book was provided by NetGalley
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June 13, 2017"Beautifully Said" is a wonderful tribute to women and girls (famous or not)! Quotes from women have been undiscovered until the founder of Quotabelle, Pauline Weger, and Alicia Williamson gave them voices. Each quote includes a "mini-biography" that helps the reader appreciate the quote even more. Every detail of a well designed book has been infused on every page; the layout beautifully compliments the quotes, the colors and graphics are subtle yet very pleasing, and each quote makes you want to know more about the person. I am buying several copies to give to family members, friends, graduates, first responders, mentors and anyone who needs a little encouragement or thanks in their life. I read it from cover to cover in one day because I couldn't wait to get to the next quote!
Thank you, Pauline, for finding a need and filling it with such style!
Thank you, Pauline, for finding a need and filling it with such style!
June 21, 2017
This is a beautifully laid out book with a calming and powerful colour scheme of pale sky blue and sunny golden yellow font on the cover as well as inside pages having pretty background effects too along with black typeset font too. Pages throughout are filled with quotes from powerful women throughout history all ready to inspire a new generation.
Emma Watson and Rosa Parks along with sports woman and fashion designers whom we all mostly know of were the key people whom stood out to me when reading through the twenty one inspiring chapters.
This is a great book to remind you of how much we can achieve and keep your spirits up high!
Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!
Emma Watson and Rosa Parks along with sports woman and fashion designers whom we all mostly know of were the key people whom stood out to me when reading through the twenty one inspiring chapters.
This is a great book to remind you of how much we can achieve and keep your spirits up high!
Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!
October 25, 2017
The book is quite a delight from the cover, to the content, to the color schemes throughout the book. The book itself seems like a wrapped present waiting to be open and inside are beautiful and inspirational quotes along with the amazing backgrounds of the women behind them. Not only a treat for anyone but a great gift for a teacher, friend, mother, or daughter.
October 5, 2021
I admit without shame that I stopped to look at this book because of the pretty pink cover. I touched it and it was so smooth. I liked touching the corners of the book, not too pointy. I rescued it from the Barnes and Noble cheap shelf along with a couple of other books on my reading list.
I wasn’t prepared for all of the quotes and beautiful stories behind the women who said them. My favorite was reading about Maria from Sesame Street. I remember when she was introduced as a neighbor, being married, having her daughter and talking about divorce. To know that she writes for Sesame Street now, making it her mission to give kids a true to life representation like Sesame Street did for her all those years ago gave me ALL the feels. I’m keeping this one on the shelf. 🥰
I wasn’t prepared for all of the quotes and beautiful stories behind the women who said them. My favorite was reading about Maria from Sesame Street. I remember when she was introduced as a neighbor, being married, having her daughter and talking about divorce. To know that she writes for Sesame Street now, making it her mission to give kids a true to life representation like Sesame Street did for her all those years ago gave me ALL the feels. I’m keeping this one on the shelf. 🥰
July 15, 2020
Challenged myself to share a quote a day starting from the day I got this book for my birthday in March until the book ended, and I just finished. Especially during a global pandemic, reading a variety of quotes written by women was inspiring.
October 8, 2017
Beautifully Said is so Quotabelle
Beautifully Said is a collection of quotes, phrases, and sayings from iconic women around the world. It features a mini-bio and a powerful quote for each historical and contemporary figure. The book refreshed me on some of the more well-known females and their impact. I was delighted to be introduced to some new figures such as, Zaha Hadid - an artist, mathematician, and starchitect who was the first woman to win a Pritzker, Sarah Parcak - egyptologist, archaeologist and professor, and Queen Lihi’ uokalani - the first and only female ruler of Hawaii. She said: “you must remember never to cease to act because you fear you may fail (Quotabelle 186-7).
I shared the book with my parents and they loved it. My dad and I enjoyed the story about Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein as well as her words. He also enjoyed quotes from Marie Mitchell and Amelia Herheart. The quote from Marie Kondo reminded him of a quote from The King’s Men about trying to be a better person tomorrow than you were yesterday.
When I shared Beautifully Said with my brother, he passed it on to his girlfriend who enjoyed a quote from Marta Karolyi - choreographer, gym founder, and team leader for USA gymnastics who said: “I don’t know if I’d say I’m strict. I’d rather say that I’m very consistent with my expectations” (Quotabelle). She appreciated the words for being straightforward and direct.
My mother explained that she liked the quotes she found because they helped define how she felt about somethings or explained them better. She enjoyed quotes from: Ertharin Cousins, Julia Child, Sophia Smith, Sonia Sotomayor and Arianna Huffington. We both enjoyed the quote and bio on J.K. Rowling.
My favorites sections of Beautifully Said: Quotes By Remarkable Women and Girls Designed To Make You Think were: She Discovers, She Inspires and She Writes. For the quotes, you’ll have to check out the book, except for this great one from Grace Hopper: “Probably the most dangerous phrase that anyone could use in the world today is that dreadful one: ‘but we’ve always done it that way,’” (Quotabelle, 164-5). I learned about a few communities like Amy Phoeler’s Smart Girls and Emily Post’s Etiquette Institution. I also spent some time researching Mihri Hatun. I was inspired by her belief that; “intellect, not gender, determines a person’s potential” (Quotabelle 204). Jo Boaler emphasized that mistakes are a big part of success, saying: “Her research shows that the most important arithmaetic lesson to boost success is being trained to embrace mistakes as a key part of learning” (Quotabelle 250-251).
The Quotabelle website increases exposure to great female role models and collects some of their most inspiring words. As it was noted by the co-founders in the introduction to their book: “Of the millions of quotes shared every day, a mere 14 percent are by women or girls.” For example, I am acquainted with people like Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Marie Kondo, Malala Yousafzai, and Julia Child, but I have never sought out their words of wisdom.
When I visited the website, I immediately found a boat-load of quotes from familiar faces: Eleanor Roosevelt, J.K. Rowling, Audrey Hepburn, Marie Curie, Emma Watson, Zora Neale Hurston, and Charlotte Bronte. Although my favorite quote from Jane Eyre was not on there; although, several quotes from that book appear. My favorite quote from Charlotte Bronte is: “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me. I am a free human being with an independent will,” was not on there. What is more empowering than that?
The answer was a long series of biographies and words from legendary female figures. You can even create a widget of your favorite quote to feature on your website or blog. Unfortunately, WordPress does not support the script so it didn’t work for me, but it might work for you! Go to the Quotabelle website to check out cheeky chicas and create a widget of your favorite phrase.
Beautifully Said is a collection of quotes, phrases, and sayings from iconic women around the world. It features a mini-bio and a powerful quote for each historical and contemporary figure. The book refreshed me on some of the more well-known females and their impact. I was delighted to be introduced to some new figures such as, Zaha Hadid - an artist, mathematician, and starchitect who was the first woman to win a Pritzker, Sarah Parcak - egyptologist, archaeologist and professor, and Queen Lihi’ uokalani - the first and only female ruler of Hawaii. She said: “you must remember never to cease to act because you fear you may fail (Quotabelle 186-7).
I shared the book with my parents and they loved it. My dad and I enjoyed the story about Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein as well as her words. He also enjoyed quotes from Marie Mitchell and Amelia Herheart. The quote from Marie Kondo reminded him of a quote from The King’s Men about trying to be a better person tomorrow than you were yesterday.
When I shared Beautifully Said with my brother, he passed it on to his girlfriend who enjoyed a quote from Marta Karolyi - choreographer, gym founder, and team leader for USA gymnastics who said: “I don’t know if I’d say I’m strict. I’d rather say that I’m very consistent with my expectations” (Quotabelle). She appreciated the words for being straightforward and direct.
My mother explained that she liked the quotes she found because they helped define how she felt about somethings or explained them better. She enjoyed quotes from: Ertharin Cousins, Julia Child, Sophia Smith, Sonia Sotomayor and Arianna Huffington. We both enjoyed the quote and bio on J.K. Rowling.
My favorites sections of Beautifully Said: Quotes By Remarkable Women and Girls Designed To Make You Think were: She Discovers, She Inspires and She Writes. For the quotes, you’ll have to check out the book, except for this great one from Grace Hopper: “Probably the most dangerous phrase that anyone could use in the world today is that dreadful one: ‘but we’ve always done it that way,’” (Quotabelle, 164-5). I learned about a few communities like Amy Phoeler’s Smart Girls and Emily Post’s Etiquette Institution. I also spent some time researching Mihri Hatun. I was inspired by her belief that; “intellect, not gender, determines a person’s potential” (Quotabelle 204). Jo Boaler emphasized that mistakes are a big part of success, saying: “Her research shows that the most important arithmaetic lesson to boost success is being trained to embrace mistakes as a key part of learning” (Quotabelle 250-251).
The Quotabelle website increases exposure to great female role models and collects some of their most inspiring words. As it was noted by the co-founders in the introduction to their book: “Of the millions of quotes shared every day, a mere 14 percent are by women or girls.” For example, I am acquainted with people like Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Marie Kondo, Malala Yousafzai, and Julia Child, but I have never sought out their words of wisdom.
When I visited the website, I immediately found a boat-load of quotes from familiar faces: Eleanor Roosevelt, J.K. Rowling, Audrey Hepburn, Marie Curie, Emma Watson, Zora Neale Hurston, and Charlotte Bronte. Although my favorite quote from Jane Eyre was not on there; although, several quotes from that book appear. My favorite quote from Charlotte Bronte is: “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me. I am a free human being with an independent will,” was not on there. What is more empowering than that?
The answer was a long series of biographies and words from legendary female figures. You can even create a widget of your favorite quote to feature on your website or blog. Unfortunately, WordPress does not support the script so it didn’t work for me, but it might work for you! Go to the Quotabelle website to check out cheeky chicas and create a widget of your favorite phrase.
October 25, 2017
Not just Beautifully Said, this book is ACTUALLY beautiful. I won this book in a giveaway, and I read it as soon as I got it. There's a brief history of the ladies who are being quoted, so even if you've never heard of them you get a general idea of who they are. The book itself is gorgeous though! This would be a perfect graduation gift for any girl.
January 18, 2020
This is an uplifting book with 100+ quotes along with a brief bio of the person who said it. I got to know a lot of inspiring women. The graphics in the background of the quotes are cute and sure to perk you up.
Note: I received a free copy of this book from the publisher. This has not influenced my review in any way.
Note: I received a free copy of this book from the publisher. This has not influenced my review in any way.
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May 12, 2019Received this for Mother's Day from the hub and spent a quiet, rainy morning by the fire reading.
December 21, 2020
In a few words, the book encapsulates multiple generations of women that have impacted the cultures across time, categorized (ie. She teaches, she writes, she explores, etc.), and enumerated with a brief overview of their accomplishments. Each page describes an individual with a quote, alongside their achievements, trailing behind the inspiration behind their life's work. If you're looking for a brief bibliography of history's renowned female minds for later personal research--- or simply something to inspire you today, you'll be glad to pick this book up.
December 29, 2021
This was a quick, delightful, inspiring read that would make for a great gift. I received it as one and I’m very glad I did. It made my day.
December 30, 2020
I figured this was more of a coffee table book, and I've never read a coffee table book cover to cover...until now! This beautiful book of quotes was more feminist than I expected; I appreciate Quotabelle's mission to archive quotes from important women and girls in particular, since most quotes shared in publications are from men. Overall, it was an inspiring read. I appreciated the colorful designs on each page as well. 5 stars-- it did a good job at what it set out to do.
January 4, 2018
A quick read, very well done. I liked the format of the brief bio on the left, and a quote from the woman/girl on the right. Some very inspiring women in here, though I found it a little ironic that a book that is trying to even the scales on male vs female contributions in the world was packed with a vast majority of only 20th/21st century women. Fortunately, the few representatives from the 19th and 18th centuries were excellent, but women born before the 20th century are still by and large invisible to most feminists today, which is a pity.
June 8, 2018
I thought it was amazing, pretty, fun, funny, and most of all impowering. It showed me that if we work hard enough we can do anything we want to. Also it was really nice to hear about all these strong women taking on the world. Also seeing how quotes can reflect on someone's personality.
January 9, 2018
I received this book as an unexpected gift from an old friend. Books are my favorite gift. It’s like the other person is saying, “I believe in you.” At least that’s what this said to me.
April 18, 2018
Decent collection of quotes
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August 8, 2023"It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature."- Laura Ingalls Wilder
"A hero is an everyday, ordinary person who has done something extraordinary. Honor them, praise them, and hope you will stand for what you believe in during a time of need."-Ann Dunnwoody
"I believe that life should be lived so vividly and so intensively that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary."- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
"Any idea that keeps anybody out is too small."- Mary Mcleod Bethune
August 14, 2022
A beautiful collection of quotes from women who helped shape the world we live in today. More than words, each quote is accompanied by a brief description of the author and their contributions. It will inspire you to do more, to be better, and to learn more about the women whose words resonated the most.
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February 28, 2023Loved this collection of quotes and the way the book was set up into specific chapters to match each type. I think this would be a great gift to give and receive. I'm always looking to share quotes on social media and this has a wide variety from famous people in history. Thanks to NetGalley for the copy of this book for the purpose of this review. Five stars!
August 11, 2025
This book really helped me through college whenever school seemed difficult. Filled with inspiration from several women, I felt like I wasn’t alone in having to go through hard times.
Anytime I felt sad or unmotivated, I would open the book to a new page, read about the individual and their quote, and feel a little bit better about myself, and how school (and grades especially) were going.
Anytime I felt sad or unmotivated, I would open the book to a new page, read about the individual and their quote, and feel a little bit better about myself, and how school (and grades especially) were going.
August 26, 2021
Simple yet inspirational book of quotes.
January 29, 2024
I enjoyed the succinct bios and quotes from notable women.
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