“Some people make a difference, some people make you different.”

“Knowledge is knowing the depth of the ocean. Wisdom is knowing till where to swim.”

“Pause while reading a book only in case of two things:1. To kiss2. To sip coffeeToo bad both are a luxury.”

“I wish that the last breath of your life is a sigh of relief.”

“The most overpowering will is the will to not work.”

“As we grow up, nothing changes more than the definition of loss.”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”

“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.”