“We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.”

“We don't just want what we want because we want it; we want what we want because that's what we've learned to want.”

“I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.”

“We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.”

“Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.”

“It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels so dirty and pointless and monstrous, as one feels about insanity, because there’s no sense to it, no dignity, nothing but pain--and wasted pain...why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage.”