“Once again, I've been thwarted by the massive difference between my vision of the successful me and the me I'm currently stuck with.”

“I guess what Im saying is, lets keep lifting each other up. Its not lost on me that two of the biggest opportunities Ive had to break into the next level were given to me by successful women in pos...”

“I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.”

“Anyone can smile on their best day. I like to meet a man who can smile on his WORST.”

“Today, I would pick the person who made me feel warm, rather than the one who left me cold.”

“What with your phone and the Xbox and the taxi TV and that music player you wear on your arm and the headphones that look like donuts on your ears, doesnt it make life so much smaller? If absolutel...”

“work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.”

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”

“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”

“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

“I love you like a fat kid loves cake!”

“Hard work should be rewarded by good food.”

“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.”