“Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?”

“I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.”

“Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.”

“Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.”

“No doubt exists that all women are crazy it's only a question of degree.”

“Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.”

“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.”