The quotable Calamity Jane.
One reader put it best: “There’s so much she says that ought to be on cross-stitch.” Calamity Jane is sharp, salty, and endlessly quotable—so check Goodreads for a full list or keep an eye on your own copy for these gems straight from her saddle-worn mouth.
“Ain’t no good ever comes of it, if you ain’t steering yourself.”
— Calamity Jane, page 54
“No. Some you put to the bullet. Some to the tongue. Reckon we’ll have to see, yet, which way this is going to turn.”
— Calamity Jane, page 62
“But wasn’t time for what was. Was time to settle up the future.”
— Calamity Jane, page 62
"Was still between Martha and Jane, then. Between the girl I was and who I wanted to be."
— Calamity Jane, page 123
"If revenge was all I had, then I was goddamned if it wouldn’t be enough."
— Calamity Jane, page 179
"Maybe I’d lost a lot—more, even, than I could suffer—but I still had my own self. And lonesome as I might be, wasn’t no force on Earth or from above what could make me less."
— Calamity Jane, page 186
"Wasn’t no way I could tell him all I needed to before my life bleed out of me.”
— Calamity Jane, page 208
“Wasn’t no bit of me willing to ride shotgun to my own funeral.”
— Calamity Jane, page 263
“Come calamity or come calm, was myself and none else.”
— Calamity Jane, page 290
