"I have lost all power over words. Can't do a thing with them."

"It is fatal to be a man or a woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly."

"I am so ugly, so mediocre, so undistinguished."

"I am not a feminist, but I am a woman. And I want to be heard."

"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."