“The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.”

“The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”

“The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.”

“No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.”

“To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.”

“So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.”

“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.”