"I do not want to be a man. I wish to be a woman, and to be as agreeable as a woman can be."

"I have just discovered that I am a very bad correspondent."

"I am not a good woman, but I am a good creature."

"I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on until I am."

"I have been so much entertained with this letter, that I have read it over and over again."