“Every woman feels. It just takes the right man to make things combust.”

“When the truth emerges, it cant be ignored. Nor will it wait.”

“Being friends is different from being lovers. Its a sea change.”

“Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught.”

“Especially at a time when one's life was new, roots helped.”

“It feels like forever, like he's lived through the same things as me, like our lives ran parallel for years until last week, when they finally intersected and fused.”

“Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work—and what to do when they break.”

“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.”

“Maybe its something to do with the movements: the Cat and then the Cow, the twist to the left and then to the right, the reaching up, and then bending to the ground, the constant training of the bo...”

“Maybe it’s something to do with the movements: the Cat and then the Cow, the twist to the left and then to the right, the reaching up, and then bending to the ground, the constant training of the b...”