“I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.”

“You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.”

“Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.”

“I do not give money for just mere hopes.”

“The anger of lovers renews their love.”

“What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!”

“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.”