"I am so full of contradictions. I am so full of myself."

"What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age."

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

"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 a disappointment, and I always would be."