Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me.'And I will answer: 'Yes.

People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.

It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.

But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be but now I want to be.

I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius.