“I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.”

“My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.”

“One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.”

“Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that I was born for the sex opposite mine, I have always loved it and done all that I could to make myself loved by it. I have also been extravagantly fond of good food and irresistibly drawn by anything which could excite curiosity.”

“I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.”

“I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, anymore than I would have every acre of earth cultivated.”