Don’t portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are.

For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity.

There aren't many people in our history who have so completely surrendered themselves to a mission that they would give up their lives for it.

My days are as long as despair can make them.

Don’t portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are.

As a young woman, I was so eager to please that I served others' happiness and even their values before my own. It didn't earn me love, but it did deliver me to a place where I had to choose between what I thought of myself and what other people did. I chose myself.

Scars are stories, history written on the body