“I've always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.”

“I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didnt even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew Id found a solid group of friends...”

“I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I just want to do everything.”

“If you want to run for Prime Minister, you can. If you dont, thats wonderful, too. Shave your armpits, dont shave them, wear flats one day, heels the next. These things are so irrelevant and surfac...”

“When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of their beloved sports teams, because they didnt want to appear muscle-y, when at 18, my male friends were unable to express their feelings, I decid...”

“Dont let anyone tell you what you can and cant do or achieve. Do what you want to do and be who you want to be. Just encourage and include each other, dont ostracize the gender in front of you.”

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”