"Hope and curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me... and still is."

"I wish I could have done more with my life."

"People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way."

"I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior."

"I don't care what people think of me."