“We have to serve ourself many years before we gain our own confidence.”

“Treat the other man's faith gently: it is all he has to believe with.”

“Almost any event will put on a new face when received with cheerful acceptance.”

“Acceptance makes any event put on a new face.”

“The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.”

“No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.”

“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.”