"I am so utterly beautiful. I am so utterly ugly."

"The woman is perfected. Her dead body wears the smile of accomplishment."

"How we need a a good long talk. I'm afraid I shall have to go to a psychoanalyst."

"Being born a woman is my awful tragedy. From the moment I was conceived I was doomed to sprout breasts and ovaries rather than penis and scrotum; to have my whole circle of action, thought and feeling…"

"I felt like I was trapped in a bell jar, stewing in my own sour air."