That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.

The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers . . .

Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.

I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.

your soul is an inner something that is another you and hardly anybody knows what it's really thinkin' except you.