And you grit your teeth, despising yourself for your tremulous sensitivity, and wondering how human beings can suffer their individualities to be mercilessly crushed under a machinelike dictatorship, be it of industry, state or organization, all their lives long.

I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.

I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.

I was my own woman. The next step was to find the proper sort of man.

I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.

I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.

What have I eaten? Lies and smiles.