You have tried to force me to a union abhorrent and impossible to me.

My only course is this--independence to think, and act, and live as I, no longer a child but a grown woman, now see fit.
I shall never return to you, father.

Life means one thing to you, another to me.

You cannot change; I would not, now, for all the world.

I must go my way, thinking my own thoughts, doing my own work, living up to my own ideals, whatever these may be.