“Women couldn’t identify with her and didn’t support her.”

“Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.”

“When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.”

“I just want to be wonderful.”

“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.”