“It's lovely to see people so happy.”

“having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay”

“what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.”

“proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.”

“It is a merciful provision my dears, for it takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world. You are costly creatures, boys, and it is well that mothers, sisters, wive...”

“Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [ar...”

“having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay”

“proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.”

“It is a merciful provision my dears, for it takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world. You are costly creatures, boys, and it is well that mothers, sisters, wive...”

“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.”