“As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.”

“I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.”

“I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.”

“Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.”

“It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.”

“I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.”

“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.”

“It is quality rather than quantity that matters.”

“Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isnt that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who re...”

“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.”

“Nothing to be proud of, nothing to regret.”

“The United States is proud to be the first country to recognize the existence of a Jewish State - just 11 minutes after Israel's independence was declared.”

“Ch'in Shih-huang is the first emperor of China. He united seven separate kingdoms into a single nation. He built the Great Wall and was buried with the terra-cotta soldiers. The Chinese have mixed ...”