"I want to be able to write and be a woman and have children and be a wife and be a mother and be a lover and be a friend and be a daughter and be a sister and be a human being and be an artist. I want…"

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

"I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad."

"I am a victim of my own moods. I am a slave to them."

"I felt like I was a prisoner, trapped in my own skin."