"I think I may well be a Jew."

"I want to be a woman who is a wife and mother, but also a famous writer. I want to have a life of my own, and not just be an appendage to a man."

"Ted beat me up physically a couple of days before my miscarriage."

"If it was God's will, it is a very stupid arbitrary blood thirsty God, and I do not like him or believe in him or respect him because he is more foolish and mean than we are and has no sense of propor…"

"I felt that I had been an idiot all my life, and that I was about to become an even bigger idiot."