Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication?

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

In later years, during what might be called my gray-outs — when I was conscious but not myself — I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

Nothing strengthens a woman's determination to be in love quite so much as being told that she cannot.