I Do Not Sing Nor Play, But

When I Was Three Years Old I Was Taken With My Family To A Little Town In Western Minnesota, Where I Lived A More Or Less Vapid And Ordinary Life Until I Was Ten.

Are There Many Things In This Cool-hearted World So Utterly Exquisite As The Pure Love Of One Woman For Another Woman?

People Say Of Me, 'she's Peculiar.' They Do Not Understand Me. If They Did They Would Say So Oftener And With Emphasis.

I Have Never Read A Line Of Walt Whitman.

It Is With Pain That I Read Of The Dire Effects Of My Book Upon The Minds Of Young Girls.