"As a young girl, I thought that being in love with the man I married would guarantee a life of eternal joy. I soon le…"

"for me, my sensuous body was a liability-it seemed to attract the wrong men for the wrong reasons. (Chapter Three)"

""...I love to read books in the original now that I'm getting more fluent in French and English. I like Dreiser, Sinc…"

"The political atmosphere was heating up. In Germany, Hitler blared his message of the super race and of hatred for th…"

"If all the Jews were like you, there wouldn't be any anti-semitism," she said fondly. From then on, I was to hear the…"

"In 1955, it was not fashionable to believe in God. To the philosophical avant garde, God was dead. Science laughed at…"

"The ego, or the false self, is a thousand-headed hydra (Chapter Nineteen)"

"Throughout this, I kept paring away at the accretions of my conditioning. I subjected all my beliefs to radical doubt…"

"A vast gap between who I was and who I could be had opened up. I saw that we humans carry within us the potential for…"

"Rereading these pages, I am struck with a sense of unfamiliarity with the feelings I then harbored. Here was a woman …"