I'm going to have a different life to most girls, I don't want to be like Mother or all those other women who have a family and then they're forgotten. I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to go on living, even after my death.
I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, and not when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.