“Love at first sight is easy to understand”

“Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.”

“There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.”

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”

“Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa. ”

“Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited or diabolical, i...”

“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.”