“Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.”

“There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.”

“We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.”

“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.”