I have done what they expected of me. I have curtsied for my Queen and made my debut. This is what I have anticipated eagerly for years. So why do I feel so unsatisfied? Everyone is merry. They haven't a care in the world. And perhaps that is it. How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much.

Truth casts a spell of its own.

We create the illusions we need to go on.

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?

I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It’s ever so bourgeois to have two.

If God has nothing better to do than punish schoolgirls for a bit of tomfoolery, then I've no use for God.

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'