I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

For we think back through our mothers if we are women.

At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.

I grow numb; I grow stiff. How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart?

I will achieve in my life - Heaven grant that it be not long - some gigantic amalgamation between the two discrepancies so hideously apparent to me. Out of my suffering I will do it. I will knock. I will enter.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

Fear no more, says the heart.