“I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.”

“It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.”

“Calumniate calumniate there will always be something which sticks.”

“Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.”

“I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep.”

“The only things that distinguish us from the rest of the animals Madam is our habit of drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time.”

“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.”