"Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish."

"I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves."

"When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned? I cannot describe to you the agony that these re…"

"The beginning is always today."

"How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of one's own hapless heart - to return from the land of deceptive dreams to the heavy knowl…"