Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.

I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.

It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.

Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.

Distance is the only cure for certain diseases.