“The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.”

“Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.”

“I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hop...”

“Fashions fade, style is eternal.”

“Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?”

“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.”