“Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.”

“Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.”

“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.”