"To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream."

"I am a victim of the American way of life, where they expect you to be a goddess, a cook, a mother, a hostess, a business woman, a sex kitten, and a superwoman, and if you don't do it, they put you in…"

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

"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 so full of contradictions. I am so full of myself."