Women were professors, lawyers and judges. They were journalists, writers and poets.

I feel that all those millions of women who are looking at us are totally vindicated, and they have something to grasp to assist them for their battles for equality,

Women and men can experience conflicts differently

I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions

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