“You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes just so you don't have to go along.”

“she: Before we got married you told me you were well-off. he: I was and I didn't know it.”

“Diets are for people who are thick and tired of it.”

“Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over the strings are still attached.”

“There's another advantage in being poor. The doctor will cure you faster.”

“Father reading report card: One thing in your favor - with these grades you couldn't possibly be cheating.”

“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.”

“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.”