“I'm playing; I'm here. I'm going to fight until they tell me they don't want me anymore.”

“Papa, I'm ashamed that you think women are so simple. We can make decisions for ourselves too, you know. I'm not a child or a baby anymore, so I'm allowed to speak my mind. And if you don't wish to hear it, just tell me so and I'll go into another room-but I'll speak it anyway. I want this for myself as much as I've never wanted the diplomatic corps and I'm going to get it-even if I have to do it alone. Excuse me.”

“I think it's important that people stand up for what they believe in.”

“I'm curious about life, period.”

“Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.”

“It is like I'm always thinking to my self, I'd like to meet someone else”

“I'm sitting with my friends getting drunk again on wine, and I think about you”