"I want to be able to write and be a woman and have children and be a wife and be a mother and be a lover and be a friend and be a daughter and be a sister and be a human being and be an artist. I want…"

"I am afraid of getting married. I am afraid of losing my identity. I am afraid of being absorbed by a man. I am afraid of being reduced to a wife. I am afraid of being reduced to a mother. I am afraid…"

"I am so utterly everything. I am so utterly nothing."

"I felt myself melting into the shadows, a formless gray blur."

"[Ted] told me openly he wished me dead."