“To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.”

“Circumstances alter cases.”

“No man is rich whose expenditure exceeds his means and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.”

“Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing and doing it assiduously.”

“Death and taxes are inevitable.”

“Women forgive injuries but never forget slights.”

“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.”