"I am quite determined to have a good laugh, come what may."

"I have been so much used to write, that I cannot help it."

"I could not sit seriously down to write a serious novel without making fun of it and of myself."

"I have a right to be in a bad humour sometimes."

"I do not want to be a man. I wish to be a woman, and to be as agreeable as a woman can be."