“I refuse to admit that I am more than 52 even if that makes my sons illegitimate.”

“I'm an extinct volcano.”

“I married beneath me - all women do.”

“My vigour vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.”

“I refuse to admit that I am more than 52 even if that makes my sons illegitimate.”

“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.”