"I want to be a woman who is not afraid to say what she thinks. I want to be a woman who is not afraid to say what she feels. I want to be a woman who is not afraid to say what she wants."

"What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age."

"If it was God's will, it is a very stupid arbitrary blood thirsty God, and I do not like him or believe in him or respect him because he is more foolish and mean than we are and has no sense of propor…"

"I felt like I was a stranger in my own life."

"I felt like I was drowning, and nobody saw me."