“I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by...”

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”

“Two turtle doves will show theeWhere my cold ashes lieAnd sadly murmuring tell theeHow in tears I did die”

“I am who I am and that's who I am”

“Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.”

“Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.”

“Nothing is more on the nose,than sun cream.”

“I've always been quite famous for my nose.”

“Plain as a nose in a man's face.”

“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.”