And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.
“It was a train full of strangers, and they were all the same.”
“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.”