“Society is composed of two great classes-- those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.”

“If a woman were about to proceed to her execution she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.”

“Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.”

“Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.”

“The public! the public! How many fools does it take to make up a public?”

“Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite and those who have more appetite than dinners.”

“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.”