"The worst thing in the world is to be a woman. It is an awful thing to be a woman, especially if you are beautiful."

"I underwent a rather brief and traumatic experience of badly-given shock treatments on an outpatient basis. Pretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide…"

"I am a bundle of nerves and desires."

"I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralysed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness."

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