There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.

Jealousy can open the blood, it can make black roses.

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

I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?" Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, "Tenderness.

I am afraid of getting older … I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free…. I want, I want to think, to be omniscient…. I think I would like to call myself ‘The girl who wanted to be God.

I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.

The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.