"I feel that I should be a little more of a lady."

"I don't want to be a part of any group."

"I decided to start anew — to strip away what I had been taught and to search for myself."

"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else."

"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."