"I am afraid of getting married. I am afraid of losing my identity. I am afraid of being absorbed by a man. I am afraid of being reduced to a wife. I am afraid of being reduced to a mother. I am afraid…"

"I felt my old world, my old self, beginning to rot away from me."

"I underwent a rather brief and traumatic experience of badly-given shock treatments on an outpatient basis. Pretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide…"

"I am a mess of contradictions."

"I am a walking, talking, breathing semicolon."