“In many ways I was an independent woman. For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow.”
“I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means.”
“I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.”
“I hated that I felt jealous. Hated it. It's not like I'd been on my own waiting for him, just like he hadn't been waiting alone for me. We had lived, for two years. Made choices and mistakes, had good days and bad days.”
“My beauty comes from having my own style, living my own way and knowing my own mind.”
“If I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian...I not only have to become my own husband, but I need to be my own father, too.”