“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.”

“Business is a combination of war and sport.”

“The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.”

“We don't love a woman for what she says but we like what she says because we love her.”

“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.”