“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.”

“We must go fast, because the race is against time.”

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

“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.”

“Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.”

“Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.”

“They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.”

“We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes place in silence, because the heart has its own language. I wil...”

“I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.”

“The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.”