“Don't judge your success by what people think of you. You are your own success.Your determination and perserverence is what matters.”

“We need grandchildren here, Petes mother said to mewhen we visited. You dont get married just to eat and fart.”

“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.”