"I am so happy. I am so sad."

"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…"

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."

"I am a walking, talking, breathing semicolon."

"I felt my life start to unravel, like a sweater I'd been knitting all my life, now coming undone stitch by stitch."