“And whats your unhappiness due to, Harry?The words came out before he had time to think. Loving someone who loves me.”

“No one can leave someone they have good sex with. They can try, but they always go back. Were simple souls like that, arent we?”

“Did you know that darkness has a taste, Grandma?”

“Sometimes you dont know what youre looking for until you find it, Harry answered. Its a methodology.”

“What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.”

“in order to isolate what was possible, you had to eliminate everything that was impossible”

“The cause of every anomaly can be found in woman.”

“I think Im very blessed to have been raised by so many intelligent and impressive women, and now continuing that on a professional level, having people like Sarah and Nadia to guide me through this...”

“Women can do it all but that doesnt mean they should have to.”

“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.”