“To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best.”

“A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.”

“Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”

“Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody...”

“In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...”

“Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.”

“The challenge lies in knowing how to bring this sort of day to a close. His mind has been wound to a pitch of concentration by the interactions of the office. Now there are only silence and the fla...”

“Disillusioned, people simply carried out their work as intended, drinking away sobriety at the end of each hard shift and repeating the process until death.”

“My mind feels like a beehive without the buzz.”

“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.”