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

"Really, I don't like human beings at all, except as a general proposition."

"I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by the male view of life. I am nauseated by the male fiction."

"The truth is, I am a very difficult woman to live with."

"I am haunted by the two contradictions. That is the hammer stroke that wakes me in the early morning."