"My heart was full of a thousand conflicting emotions."

"We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we w…"

"I wish that women would have power not over men, but over themselves."

"What does it avail that I am in the midst of a garden, if the flowers bloom not for me?"

"I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on."