“As a society weve progressed to a point where it is unacceptable behavior to knock someone down who is acting a fool. I teach my children to use their words when faced with a conflict. Thats what c...”

“...the word fine. As in Im fine, its fine, that looks fine, etc. For a man the word fine has, tops, three or four meanings and thats only because of the fairly recent edition of Dang, girl! You loo...”

“Kids dont act right. Sure its embarrassing when it happens but any reasonable person wont fault a parent when a kid throws a fit. However, when a child doesnt act right and a parent doesnt act at a...”

“Are bacon and chocolate the foundation of a good meal? No, everybody knowsthat is a deep fryer and/or gravy. However, I have long held the notion that you can't name a food that I can't improve by ...”

“America, I know we have our problems. I realize that the scale and our waistlineare foremost among them. Im willing to make concessions, I really am. I drink, and prefer, skim milk. Ill take water ...”

“Our plump predicament comes from the way we think. In America life hasbecome a daily quest for instant gratification. Do we think about the long term? Rarely. We ask ourselves, What sounds good? Th...”

“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.”