"I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would pick."

"I wish I could kill myself."

"What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age."

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

"I am a girl of the times. I am a modern girl."