“I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.”

“There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.”

“The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be.”

“A woman must make her fortune before she is 30 or work after she is 30 or get married.”

“A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.”

“Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.”

“What kind of wedding would you like?" he asked, and stole another kiss before she could reply."The kind that turns you into my husband." She touched the firm line of his mouth with her fingers. "Wh...”

“Do we ever get slow rain?”

“Life is neither a feast nor a fun. But a fast.”

“Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.”

“The only honest way to approach the question of whiteness and blackness is to start by accepting that these are arbitrary categories that were invented in the 17th and 18th century in order to just...”

“I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] Joyce not to mention Catholicism or the world of Dublin. Never. And I don't know why I should be ...”

“One must not trifle with love.”

“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.”

“In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.”