It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.

All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.

I believe in permanent revolution.

Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.

Sex for many has become a sorry business, a mechanical release involving neither discovery nor triumph, stressing human isolation more dishearte-ingly than ever before.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Lifelong monogamy is a maniacal idea.