“Nicole had put on weight. This is the effect which, in three cases out of four, unhappiness has upon women. The process of eating guarantees at least the health of the body.”

“He was stabbed by memory, that tyrant which impinges upon our dreams and leaps at out throat as soon as we awaken.”

“We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil.”

“What we love we may also despise.”

“Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.”

“Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”

“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.”