“I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”

“The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted...”

“People didn't call blacks names anymore, at least not to their faces. Italians weren't wops or dagos, and there were no more kikes, Japs, chinks, or spics in polite conversation. Everybody had a gr...”

“After the boy at the supermarket had called her those names, Evelyn Couch had felt violated. Raped by words. Stripped of everything. She had always tried to keep this from happening to her, always ...”

“Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.”

“...but oh, it would just break your heart to see some of them waiting for their visitors. They get their hair all done up on Saturday, and on Sunday morning they get themselves all dressed and read...”

“This is why you shouldnt hire your friends. Its all nice and professional until the insubordination starts. She sighed.”

“This is why you shouldn’t hire your friends. It’s all nice and professional until the insubordination starts. She sighed.”

“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.”