“Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.”

“Growth is betrayal.”

“Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains.”

“Oh,' she says, 'the Vat prints nothing but rapes. You know what a rape usually is? It's a woman who changed her mind afterward.”

“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.”