“When the first baby laughed for the first time the laugh broke into a million pieces and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies.”

“Life is a long lesson in humility.”

“You see dear it is not true that woman was made from man's rib she was really made from his funny bone.”

“When the first baby laughed for the first time the laugh broke into a million pieces and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies.”

“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.”