"If I say it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me bast. Then take a breath and go ahead."
-Anita Baker

"I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals."
-Brigid Brophy

"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
-Virginia Woolf

"Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got."
-Janis Joplin