"I have killed thousands. She is my own!"

"She was never yours as you are another's."

"I am not another's; I am my own, and my daughter is mine."

"Then, alas, your hour is come!"

"I care not. I am what I am; no one can take from me myself!"

"You are not the Self you imagine."

"So long as I feel myself what it pleases me to think myself, I care
not. I am content to be to myself what I would be. What I choose
to seem to myself makes me what I am. My own thought makes me me;
my own thought of myself is me. Another shall not make me!"

"But another has made you, and can compel you to see what you have
made yourself. You will not be able much longer to look to yourself
anything but what he sees you! You will not much longer have
satisfaction in the thought of yourself. At this moment you are
aware of the coming change!"

"No one ever made me. I defy that Power to unmake me from a free
woman! You are his slave, and I defy you! You may be able to
torture me--I do not know, but you shall not compel me to anything
against my will!"

"Such a compulsion would be without value. But there is a light
that goes deeper than the will, a light that lights up the darkness