People like [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor], whether young people, young women, even critics - male critics - they were not shocked by it. Of course, some parts were cut.

I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.

Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.

I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

Something I tried to hold onto, to touch if only for a moment, but it slipped away from me like the air, like an illusion, or a dream that floats away and is lost. I wept in my sleep as though it was something I was losing now; a loss I was experiencing for the first time, and not something I had lost a long time ago.

When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.