“He that is overcautious will accomplish little.”

“Art is difficult transient is her reward.”

“God helps the brave.”

“Who dares nothing need hope for nothing.”

“Disappointments are to the soul what a thunder-storm is to the air.”

“With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.”

“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.”