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

One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.

Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.

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

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

I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.