Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.

The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment.

I need the reality of other people, work, to fulfill myself. Must never become a mere mother and housewife.

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

I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together.

I’d discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.

I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrific, like madness, being tortured, this sort of experience, and one should be able to manipulate these experiences with an informed and an intelligent mini.