--- title: "9 Bag Lady Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 9 Bag Lady quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Bag Lady sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6dd/robert-r-mccammon-14992_forward_put-one-foot-forward-and-the-other-will_824117.jpg" --- > [“Put one foot forward and the other will get you to where you are going~!" Bag Lady, Swan Song”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-r-mccammon/put-one-foot-forward-and-the-other-will-get-you-to-where-you-are/) [Robert R. McCammon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-r-mccammon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6dd/robert-r-mccammon-14992_forward_put-one-foot-forward-and-the-other-will_824117.jpg) > [A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-hillerman/a-writer-is-like-a-bag-lady-going-through-life-with-a-sack-and-a/) [Tony Hillerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-hillerman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f0/tony-hillerman-22962_bags_a-writer-is-like-a-bag-lady-going-throug_416172.jpg) > [Compared to Imelda Marcos, Marie Antoinette was a bag lady.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-j-solarz/compared-to-imelda-marcos-marie-antoinette-was-a-bag-lady/) [Stephen J. Solarz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-j-solarz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/384/stephen-j-solarz-96967_bags_compared-to-imelda-marcos-marie-antoinet_3119160.png) > [I look like a real bag lady when I go to Starbucks with my dog and get my chai.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley-maclaine/i-look-like-a-real-bag-lady-when-i-go-to-starbucks-with-my-dog-and/) [Shirley MacLaine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley-maclaine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd7/shirley-maclaine-1977_bags_i-look-like-a-real-bag-lady-when-i-go-to_1429643.jpg) > [You know what I'd like to do? I'd like to play a bag lady.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-pfeiffer/you-know-what-i-d-like-to-do-i-d-like-to-play-a-bag-lady/) [Michelle Pfeiffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-pfeiffer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/327/michelle-pfeiffer-3639_bags_you-know-what-i-d-like-to-do-i-d-like-to_2122356.jpg) > [It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jules-verne/it-was-all-very-well-for-an-englishman-like-mr-fogg-to-make-the-tour/) [Jules Verne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jules-verne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a0/jules-verne-795_bags_it-was-all-very-well-for-an-englishman-l_2492750.jpg) > [Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced by the bag lady and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florence-king/those-colorful-denizens-of-male-despair-the-bowery-bum-and-the-rail/) [Florence King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florence-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8a/florence-king-2603_great-saying-by-grea_those-colorful-denizens-of-male-despair_1467027.jpg) > [“Sheriff Fox was running his fingers through his thin hair. In a few short years, he’d look bald as a peeled apple.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ed-lynskey/sheriff-fox-was-running-his-fingers-through-his-thin-hair-in-a-few/) [Ed Lynskey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ed-lynskey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b68/ed-lynskey-49956_cozy_sheriff-fox-was-running-his-fingers-thro_974486.jpg) > [“A bag lady of indeterminate race pushed her belongings in a cart, on top of which she had balanced a broken-legged plastic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caroline-b-cooney/a-bag-lady-of-indeterminate-race-pushed-her-belongings-in-a-cart-on/) [Caroline B. Cooney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caroline-b-cooney/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30a/caroline-b-cooney-5045_corpse_a-bag-lady-of-indeterminate-race-pushed_238423.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bag-lady/#itemlist", "name": "Bag Lady Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Put one foot forward and the other will get you to where you are going~!\" Bag Lady, Swan Song”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert R. 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