“I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning.... I generally look like one major bowwow. I mean arf.”

“I wanted to be scared again ... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn the only way I feel challenged.”

“I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning.... I generally look like one major bowwow. I mean arf.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.”

“There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.”

“The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.”