A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.

Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are.

For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.