"I am afraid of getting married. I am afraid of losing my identity. I am afraid of being absorbed by a man. I am afraid of being reduced to a wife. I am afraid of being reduced to a mother. I am afraid…"

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

"I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that person. But I am not omniscient. I have to live my life, and it is the…"

"The only good man is a dead man."

"I am jealous of men – a dangerous and subtle envy which can corrode, I imagine, any relationship."