“You're just an object locked up in the house.”

“But for a mother who was submissive to the degree my mother was, it was OK to kill girls. For a father like mine, it was normal to chop off his daughters hair with sheep shears, and to beat her with a belt or a cane or tie her up in the stable all night with the cows.”

“Something in me is broken but people don't realize it because I always smile to hide it.”

“The only way to help me stop suffering was to help me die.”

“I was thirsty, as much as for water as for dying.”

“Sometimes laying in my bed, I would think that I should have died because I deserved to.”

“Although I am able to walk about freely, I am a prisoner in my skin.”