“Sometimes I wish I was a woman, just so I could have an abortion.”

“Now that it's over, I wish I could have all the bad stuff back... just so I could have the good.”

“Sometimes I wish I could just be like everyone else my age and not think at all.”

“I ever wished to look as well as I could, and to please as much as my want of beauty would permit. I sometimes regretted that I was not handsomer; I sometimes wished to have rosy cheeks, a straight nose, and small cherry mouth; I desired to be tall, stately, and finely developed in figure; I felt it a misfortune that I was so little, so pale, and had features so irregular and so marked.”

“I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wish—I wish I could have reaped just one single, solitary, big Emotion before the world had caught it and—appraised it—and taxed it—and licensed it—and staled it!”

“Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I'd have an excuse.”