"I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am not a woman but a man, for I can think, I can write, I can be a thousand things."

"How much better to die than to marry Mr. Collins!"

"I am like a piece of driftwood."

"It is obvious that the values of women differ very often from the values which have been impressed upon them by the other sex."

"The soul of a writer is a very odd fish."