“Why, I've been all over the world, I tell you, and fairly loafed and lolled in every conceivable sort of ease and luxury, but the Soul of methe wild, restless, breathless, discontented soul of mene...”

“Provide for her Futureif you can!That's my motto!But a man's just a plain bum who don't provide for his own Past!”

“I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wishI wish I could have reaped just one single, solitary, big Emotion before the world had caught it andappraised itand taxed itand ...”

“Provide for her Future—if you can!—That's my motto!—But a man's just a plain bum who don't provide for his own Past!”

“I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wish—I wish I could have reaped just one single, solitary, big Emotion before the world had caught it and—appraised it—and taxed it—...”

“Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.”

“If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.”

“Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.”

“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.”