“A woman who can read can educate herself. A woman who cannot knows only what she is told.”

“There are things that a woman sings, and only a woman knows the full meaning. You may sing for men as well as for women, but only a woman knows your full meaning. I am not a feminista. I only think a woman should be true to who she believes herself to be. Or who she wants herself to be. Or who she imagines herself to be. I don't know what I mean, or whether I'm true myself to any of that. I don't think there are many of us who are true to our possibilities. ”

“As long as I know there exists in the world someone who does tricks only for the love of the trick, as long as I know there is a woman who loves reading for reading's sake, I can convince myself that the world continues...And every evening I, too, abandon myself to reading, like that distant unknown woman...”

“No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.”

“A woman who is not happy with herself can never be happy for someone else." -Toyi Ward”

“A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.”