What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

It never occurred to me to say no.

Opinions are like orgasms...mine matters most and I really don't care if you have one.

I hate Technicolor. Everybody in a Technicolor movie seems to feel obliged to wear a lurid costume in each new scene and to stand around like a clotheshorse with a lot of very green trees or very yellow wheat or very blue ocean rolling away for miles and miles in every direction.

I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir.

If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.